Meaningful Work Quotes

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  • I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

    Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.
  • I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  • Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

    "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.
  • Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  • In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

    FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Sep 11, 2012
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

    Meaningful   Light   Long  
  • To do meaningful work is to contribute - to create value in society.

    Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.154, John Wiley & Sons
  • Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

    Twitter post from Dec 17, 2011
  • Without work all life goes rotten.

    Work   Rotten   Stifling  
  • Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.

  • What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

  • Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

    Source: www.thehighcalling.org
  • Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  • Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

    "How to Do Work: 8 Strategies to Stop Wasting Time and Get Things Done" by Nate Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
  • To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

  • If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

    Crush   Meaningful   Work  
  • You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

    Truth   Honesty   Lines  
    "Watergate Journalist Says Media Losing Public’s Trust". www2.ljworld.com. April 16, 2005.
  • The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

    Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”
  • Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

    Meaningful   Work   Men  
    "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.
  • The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

  • Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  • I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are employed at something that is not your ideal work, it is important to find ways to take as much pleasure in it as possible. Living in the present moment can make ordinary activities more interesting and joyful; you may be surprised, if you only look, at what you will find. If you try to stay connected with why you are doing what you are doing, for example, then even the parts of your life that aren't especially interesting can become more meaningful.

  • To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

  • There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

    Art   Work   Way  
  • In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

  • Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.

  • Meaningful work is within your grasp.

  • If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

    Prophet (1923) "On Work"
  • Critics should find meaningful work.

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