Quotes for Monday Morning: You Are At Work But Wish You Were Home Chilling Out

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but my chief duty is to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.  The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

"Be kind, for everyone you know is facing a great battle."  ~ Philo of Alexandria

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.  ~Doug Larson

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America.  If I'm not there, I go to work.  ~Robert Orben

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?  ~Author Unknown

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.  ~Author Unknown

Law of the Alibi:  If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.  ~Author Unknown

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.  ~Niels Bohr

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade."  Instead, learn the trade.  ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.  ~Martin H. Fischer

What is it that you like doing?  If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.  ~Lee Iacocca

Hat tip to Aristotle for this one:

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

 

Sources

Quotegarden.com

Careerencouragementtypepad.com

Litquotes.com