Étiquette : Work

It’s not the hours you put in your work that counts, it’s the work you put in the hours.

Sam Ewing

Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them—work, family, health, friends and spirit … and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls—family, health, friends and spirit—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same.

Brian Dyson

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Naval historian and management theorist

Think of what you want your life to be like and then find a job or create one that meets your criteria.

Richie Norton

Choisis un métier que tu aimes et tu n’auras pas à travailler un seul jour de ta vie.

Confucius

Why do we work 8–9 hours a day so that we can earn free time, while we endlessly waste that hard-earned free time?

We are not given a short life but we make it short.

Darius Foroux