Browsing Quotes With Tag: work (68)
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The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It’s our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can’t I? Where’s mine, huh? OK, so my band, we put on the best live shows you could ever see in a bar, and we made two albums, which a lot of critics and not many real people liked. But having talent is never enough to make us happy, is it? I mean, it should be, because a talent is a gift, and you should thank God for it, but I didn’t. It just pissed me off because I wasn’t being paid for it, and it didn’t get me on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Oscar Wilde once said, “One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” Well, fucking right on, Oscar. My real life was full of headlining shows at Wembley and Madison Square Garden and platinum records, and Grammys, and that wasn’t the life I was leading, which is maybe why it felt like I could throw it away.Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who had been enchanted in the nursery by “stories from the Odyssey” buckles down to really learning Greek. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing… and their lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore harder to tempt.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My advice has always been: “You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here’s what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.”
No one wants to hear someone say: “I’m not good at sorting mail because the job is beneath me.” No job should be beneath us. And if you can’t (or won’t) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I did, however, do a lot of my winning out of view of my family. And I know that increased suspicions. But I found the best way to bag stuffed animals is without the pressure of a family audience. I also didn’t want anyone to know just how long it took me to be successful. Tenacity is a virtue, but it’s not always crucial for everyone to observe how hard you work at something.
Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you are doing your best in your creation, the mind stops. You are alive again. Your emotions are coming out and you don’t even notice how great you feel. The action, just the action, makes you feel great. When you have inaction, your mind has to have action, and that is an open invitation for the voice of knowledge to talk to you. But when you are absorbed in what you are doing, the mind hardly speaks.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Speaker: James M. BarriePosted: 27 Mar 2008 at 10:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Speaker: BuddhaPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 7:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!