Thoughts on the Subject of Working

If you don’t do it excellently don’t do it at all, because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?”

Robert Townsend

A minute of thinking is often more valuable than an hour of talk or unplanned work.

John C Maxwell

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. You will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck

I love the man who can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but she whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves her conduct, will pursue her principles unto death.

Thomas Paine (with a PC twist)

The summit has never looked so bright, and the path has never looked steeper.  If you are not stirred by both prospects then you are too tired to do honour to your Path just now.  Rest for a while and then continue in new heart, or abandon it to others.  Nothing else will do in the days ahead.

Retep Elttil

Nature will continually attempt to reclaim your Path.  It is yours only so long as you walk it and tend it.

Retep Elttil

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

(Not just) Mother Teresa

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche