“Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.”
“Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.”
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”
“That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God s strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.”
“Think of a typical full-time worker, who s in the office from nine to five daily, but takes thirty minutes for lunch, leaves an hour early on Friday, and comes in an hour late on Tuesday due to a dental appointment. That puts her at 35.5 hours for the week. One errand tacked on to the end of lunch one day or a longish midmorning break will pull her under that thirty-five-hour threshold that defines full time.”
“Duro oficio el del inquisidor, tiene que golpear a los más débiles, y cuando mayor es su debilidad.”
“Patience is one of the keys to success but I came to understand that you have to be patient while working not while waiting. After sowing, you still have to water your seed while waiting for the fruits.”
“To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....”
“Manage the inn, Jane, save it. Have a mission in life. Discover that work worth doing is about more than profit and toil. It s about using the gifts and ability you ve been given to serve your fellow man and please your Maker.”
“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest. As to going a visiting, where can we not go, if we will; where have we not been, when we would; starting our fancy away from our Christmas Tree!”
“Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death”
“The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.”
“I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
“There ought to be a law against people doing work they don t like or believe in.”
“People take themselves entirely too seriously. They take their ideas too seriously, their work too seriously, they take love and their relationships too seriously.”
“All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...”
“A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves”