We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.
Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.