Successful Work Quotes

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

The harder I work the more I live.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

If you think you can't, you're right.

One of the obstacles to recognizing chronic mistreatment in relationships is that most abusive men simply don't seem like abusers. They have many good qualities, including times of kindness, warmth, and humor, especially in the early period of a relationship. An abuser's friends may think the world of him. He may have a successful work life and have no problems with drugs or alcohol. He may simply not fit anyone's image of a cruel or intimidating person. So when a woman feels her relationship spinning out of control, it is unlikely to occur to her that her partner is an abuser.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.