“Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
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English poet, author 1806–1861Related quotes
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868–1924) American industrial engineer
Source: Measurement of the human factor in industry (1917), p. 3.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Context: It is ironic that at a time when the magnitude of our dangers makes the physical fitness of our citizens a matter of increasing importance, it takes greater effort and determination than ever before to build the strength of our bodies. The age of leisure and abundance can destroy vigor and muscle tone as effortlessly as it can gain time. Today human activity, the labor of the human body, is rapidly being engineered out of working life.
“When the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.”
T.S. Eliot book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
The Old Gumbie Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
late quote about the start of his famous large painting 'Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going'
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 159-160: in a letter from Tahiti to a friend, 1898
“What gets measured gets done.”
Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence
Attributed to organization theorist Mason Haire. p. 268.
In Search of Excellence (1982)
“The time to labor is while it is day.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Tempo da travagliare è quanto è 'l giorno.
Canzone 22, line 3
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life