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I’m trying to help,” Albert said.“By paying him with beer?”“I paid him what he wanted, and Sam was okay with it. You were at the meeting,” Albert said. “Look, how else do you think you get someone like Orc to spend hours in the hot sun working? Astrid seems to think people will work just because we ask them to. Maybe some will. But Orc?”Lana could see his point. “Okay. I shouldn’t have jumped all over you.”“It’s okay. I’m getting used to it,” Albert said. “Suddenly I’m the bad guy. But you know what? I didn’t make people the way they are. If kids are going to work, they’re going to want something back.”“If they don’t work, we all starve.”“Yeah. I get that,” Albert said with more than a tinge of sarcasm. “Only, here’s the thing: Kids know we won’t let them starve as long as there’s any food left, right? So they figure, hey, let someone else do the work. Let someone else pick cabbages and artichokes.”Lana wanted to get back to her run. She needed to finish, to run to the FAYZ wall. But there was something fascinating about Albert. “Okay. So how do you get people to work?”He shrugged. “Pay them.”“You mean, money?”“Yeah. Except guess who had most of the money in their wallets and purses when they disappeared? Then a few kids stole what was left in cash registers and all. So if we start back using the old money we just make a few thieves powerful. It’s kind of a problem.”“Why is a kid going to work for money if they know we’ll share the food, anyway?” Lana asked.“Because some will do different stuff for money. I mean, look, some kids have no skills, right? So they pick the food for money. Then they take the money and spend it with some kid who can maybe cook the food for them, right? And that kid maybe needs a pair of sneakers and some other kid has rounded up all the sneakers and he has a store.”Lana realized her mouth was open. She laughed. The first time in a while.“Fine. Laugh,” Albert said, and turned away.“No, no, no,” Lana hastened to say. “No, I wasn’t making fun of you. It’s just that, I mean, you’re the only kid that has any kind of a plan for anything.
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
The Only Way to Do Great Work is To Love What You Do
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom
Dream big, Dream to fly.. Let your zeal speak for you! Work passionately,And smile to each blissful morning.Make your life a reason.. To reach for the sky!
— Somya Kedia
What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog
— Brian Eshleman
Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work with it?
— Deyth Banger, The Life of One Kid 1
A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.
— Ken Poirot
I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.
— Elena Ferrante, La frantumaglia
To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
It’s not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It’s almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives.
— Tony Schwartz
Plant your tiny seeds and keep watering them every day. Soon, they’ll grow.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.
— John Ruskin
Work usually follows will.
— William James
Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
There is a difference between working hard to create a life that truly serves you and working hard to create a life that you’ve been told you should want.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
The term "work" is getting thrown around as though everyone seems to be doing so. The question is, working for what? Every time I am at work, it means I am getting closer to my goal. Once you have the vision, you work towards it.
— J.R. Rim
The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan ‘b’. For those troubling occasions when plan ‘b’ didn’t work, he would strive to also have a plan ‘c’ in place. In short, he was the kind of man who always had something up his sleeve besides his funny bone. The pilot, his trusted second man gave him a worried look. “What do we do now?
— Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
The famous split windowSplits had the KDF dash until 1953, which had two glove compartments. Note rear “w” bonnet and small round taillights. There were no indicators like today’s cars – just pop-up indicators that work with an electric servo, called ‘trafficators’ or ‘semaphores’. 6v electrics. Small, flat front windscreen.
— Christina Engela, Bugspray
Waking up every cold morning is always a problem especially now it's raining daily but I thank God for Proverbs 24:33 which says "...A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, then poverty will come as a robber and your want like an armed man"Whenever I think of that verse, no matter how sweet the sleep is or how cold the morning is, I always stand up on my feet to get set for work
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter – even a good one with a lot of work, time is money. It seemed today that time was running out for Beck the Badfeller.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his honor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
— Deyth Banger
As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
I myself not dwells, the only people are dwells in underlying aim of my each work.
— Tanmaya Guru
My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual.
— Tanmaya Guru
To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.
— Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song
... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.
— Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
There are days when you will wonder if it is even possible to make money doing what you do, or whether you are just barking up the wrong tree...There will be days when you think that if you don't show up for the next few days nobody will miss you and nobody will care...Don't believe it...it's not true...If your gift and your passion wasn't needed you wouldn't have them...
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Billionaire Mindset (for MoneyMaking Mommies): How to make your Billions and build your legacy
He is sure to be more happy who has eaten well and slept well and has besides a little money in his jeans. Such men are rare to find for the simple reason that most men are incapable of appreciating the wisdom of such a simple truth. The worker thinks he would be better off if he were running the factory
—  the owner of the factory thinks the would be better off if he were a financier
I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.
— Patricia Highsmith
Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.
— Patricia Highsmith
Occupational Safety & Health Administration's (OSHA) lack of law enforcement has made the USA a dangerous place to work.
— Steven Magee
But it is not always the people who say most who do most.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine.
— Steven Magee
Be robust enough to work more than a robot!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
— Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy
It's easy to equate longing with love. It's the same way it was with your mother. You worked to earn her love. You loved and were not appreciated. You learned that love was Work and Wanting and Giving and Longing. This is what you learned love was and you are still trying to find it by that old definition. But that is not what love is.
— Kate McGahan
When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.
— Dhaval Gajera
Do we miss out on love because we are working so hard? Or are we working so hard because we missed out on love?
— Kate McGahan
As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.
— Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο σκοτάδι
God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasure. He works in a man; He works on a man; He works through a man; He works around a man. Know that He does far more than simply work for a man. And yet, even as He Himself needs no one else, everyone else is ever in need of Him.
— Criss Jami
No legitimate work, undertaken for the glory of God, is menial or meaningless. Hard physical labor wasn’t beneath the dignity of the Son of God. Jesus worked as a carpenter for about seventeen years and only about three years doing itinerant ministry. Carpentry was a lowly, ill-paying profession. Yet Jesus was doing God’s work when pounding a nail just as much as He was doing it when preaching on a hillside–because He was doing what God wanted Him to do when God wanted Him to do it (p. 143).
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss, True Woman 201: Interior Design - Ten Elements of Biblical Womanhood
Unless, of course, one chose to join the increasing numbers who had decided they were so deep in despair that there was nothing worse to fear in life. These were men who had finally, and so early, so surprisingly early seen enough of something in their own ives and in the lives around them to convince them of the final futility of efforts of efforts to break the mean monthly cycle of debt and borrowing, borrowing and debt.
— Ayi Kwei Armah
People say I was made for thisNothin' else would I trade for thisAnd just think I get paid for this...
— Bobby Darin
Would you work for me? I will gush of majesty on your head.
— Tanmaya Guru
In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas.
— Darynda Jones, The Curse of Tenth Grave
Have the STRENGTH to say “no” to the status quo. Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.
— Richie Norton
WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don’t.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don’t.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don’tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don’t.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don’t.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don’t.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we’ll still go on living....But at what cost?
— Richie Norton
How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works.
— Richie Norton
Always err on the side of generosity.
— Richie Norton
The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.
— Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)
— Deyth Banger
My worth is not based on the ‘work of my hands’ despite how feverishly I might work and how audaciously successful I might be. Rather, my worth is based exclusively on the astonishing fact that I am the ‘work of God’s hands.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
— Scott McCloud
I dream it shatters, I expect and dissapoints, I get tired & Same dream insists I want to be your & my fatigue smiles as whole energy be in me .
— Ankit Samrat
If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning.
— Katelyn Beaty, A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World
Nobody will achieve anything just by dreaming.
— Graham Speechley
Let us work joyfully while we have the strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I prefer to rule and work in Nigeria in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free in the name of my country.
— Saminu Kanti
Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art.
— Richie Norton
To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!
— Richie Norton
People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
— Richie Norton
How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
— Richie Norton
We’re all scared.Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must not be doing something I need to be doing. I believe that when you’re doing important work, you feel fear because you don’t want to fail. The challenge is to not let the fear stop you from doing the work that will enable you to achieve your goals. You need to recognize the fear for what it is and allow your “why” (your compelling vision) for what you’re doing be bigger than the fear itself.So where do you start? Identify your fears. As they say, "name it to tame it." Then, move forward.
— Richie Norton
Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.
— Richie Norton
MOM = Maker of Miracles
— Richie Norton
Give your idea a chance. You’ll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don’t swing.
— Richie Norton
Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.
— Richie Norton
My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.
— Richie Norton
Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.
— Richie Norton
Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
— Richie Norton
Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
— Richie Norton
The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
— Richie Norton
What does a ship absolutely need to stay afloat? I’m not a mariner, so I can’t exactly say. . . but what I can tell you is that ships don’t absolutely need lighthouses—but they sure do help!When it comes to acting on inspired ideas, it’s easy to trick ourselves into thinking we don’t really need to do them, but that’s like a ship ignoring the beacon of light on a rocky shore.
— Richie Norton
Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.
— Richie Norton
If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.
— Richie Norton
At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don’t have a business.
— Richie Norton
Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?
— Richie Norton
Share your success stories with others. Don't brag, but don't hide your light. People want (and need) to be inspired and instructed. I know I want to follow and learn from successful people. Isn't that the basis for every business and self-help book? People will also give you good ideas to build on your own wins when you share openly. And when you write out your wins to an audience, your own ideas start to grow within you. Will you try? What's a win you've had lately? Don't be shy about it.
— Richie Norton
Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.
— Richie Norton
Don't be a hater and call it love.
— Richie Norton
If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.
— Richie Norton
Pondering the legitimate modern day problem of intellectual bullies. Self-proclaimed smarties attacking the innocent. They revel in being politically correct, all-loving and open-minded while not applying these principles to themselves.The ultimate double standard in the name of truth and acceptance. It's sad.This is not a post about anyone in particular. This is an observation over years.Have you seen it? Call it out when you do.The offender won't know what to do because they know that you know their game.
— Richie Norton
The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around?
— Richie Norton
Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.
— Richie Norton
If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.
— Richie Norton
If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.
— Richie Norton
Are you setting business goals? Try this:Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.Step 3: Let your mind go to work.Thank me later.
— Richie Norton
Doubt manifests itself in indecision.
— Richie Norton
Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.
— Richie Norton
People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is someone better than who you inherently are, and this is simply not the truth. Let me say this loud and clear: the person you imagine yourself to be in the very best and most powerful moments of your life, is the authentic you. And in truth, I imagine you’re probably much more amazing even than that.
— Richie Norton
Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret.
— Richie Norton
If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
— Richie Norton
The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.
— Richie Norton
When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
— Richie Norton
There's no "get rich quick." There's no "overnight success." However, this doesn't mean that when you decide to start a business that you're just starting. You could start making new money tomorrow. I was fishing with my son and taught him that you can't catch a fish unless your line is in the water. A truth my dad once taught me. You may have spent years learning a skill or creating a product or service that you just simply haven't thought to monetize. Like leaving a fishing pole on the ground along side the river, but not having your line in the water yet. All you need to create a new stream of income is to make something consumable and offer it at a price that someone will pay. If you're not making offers, you're not making money. Get your line in the water!
— Richie Norton
Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.
— Richie Norton
College does not equal job security. Entrepreneurship does not equal job security. For heaven's sake, "job security" does not equal job security. So what do you do? Don't be a one-trick pony. Add real value in everything you do. But most of all, study and apply business models. No matter what discipline you come from. Learn how to add value so that value can flow in the form of money to you. That, my friends, is job security. Learn where money comes from and you'll know where to turn when life throws a curve.
— Richie Norton
What is good customer service about then?One word: caring.Bad customer service happens when the employee doesn't care.You could chalk it up to low wages or getting paid regardless of results. But that's not it either.Hiring managers need to do two things and two things only:1. Hire employees that ALREADY care and are ALREADY motivated.2. Repeat step 1.When this is done, everything changes. People are happy on both sides of the table.Costs for management and training plummet
— Richie Norton
Follow your passion and learn how to make money at it. Or don't follow your passion and learn to make money at that. They are the same. It's a choice.
— Richie Norton
Ever feel like you're always winding up and never throwing it out? You might blame it on perfectionism or procrastination or preparation. You may even call it prudent. But whatever it is...IT'S NOT WORKING. I call this phenomenon "petrified performance." Where you're busy, busy, busy (on the wrong activities or the right activities for too long), and never accomplishing the idea or task you set out to do. You're stuck. Like a tree that once was lively is now dead and immovable like a stone. What once was a fluid idea is now frozen in time. How do you overcome petrified performance? With practice, silly. Everything you do should be considered a "project" because projects have a beginning and an end with a timeline. No more dreaming. Wake up and put those dreams to work by putting the steps necessary to make them happen on the calendar. Are you willing to practice? That's my prescription.
— Richie Norton
When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.
— Richie Norton
You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.
— Richie Norton
What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
— Richie Norton
Success brings a measure of credibility. The fastest way to turn credibility into authority is to deliver results. The best way to deliver results is to help others succeed. You can help others succeed by being helpful. Always look for ways to be helpful. Helpful people are always in demand.
— Richie Norton
If you want to be trusted, trust first. Make decisions that are grounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.
— Richie Norton
7 TRUTHS ABOUT MONEY, WORTH, HAPPINESS & CHOICE1. Money does not validate your personal worth. Just because the financial world uses the term "worth" as it applies to business, does not mean it applies to you as a person. People get that mixed up all the time and it's dangerous. You are worthy just for being. Remember that. You are priceless.2. When you like yourself regardless of the size of your bank account, success will follow because you're already successful. Think about it. Success begets success. Deal with that self-loathing garbage that holds you back, like yourself and get to work. 3. Don't try to validate your personal worth with money. If you do, your self-esteem may go up or down with the size of your bank account or the success or failure of your next venture. That's no way to live.4. The fallacy is that the more money you have the happier you are. Some of the saddest people in the world are filthy rich. That said, some of the happiest people are filthy rich. Likewise, some of the saddest people and some of the happiest people are dirt poor. Money is not the deciding factor in your happiness. You are the deciding factor in your own happiness. Take 100% responsibility for your life and watch magic happen.5. Now don't get me wrong. I live in the 21st century too. Money is like air. You don't know how important it is until it runs out. Money to humans is like water to fish. You can't live without it. Money is how we survive and money impacts our happiness, freedom, how and where we live and our ability to make various choices. 6. In the end, a) money will never determine your personal worth because you are worthy just by the fact that you are here, b) money may impact your happiness, but happiness is a choice regardless of the size of your bank account, and c) money is necessary to survive and enhances your circumstance.7) Bringing it all together: given a choice (which you are if you are reading this mini-essay), why not a) choose to believe you are already worthy regardless of your financial situation, b) make happiness a habit, and c) get a mentor to learn how to earn more income so you never run out of air or water?
— Richie Norton
Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.Every post you make is a marketing piece. Whether you realize it or not and regardless of having something for sale. Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.
— Richie Norton
Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?
— Richie Norton
Dreams come true when you live life awake.
— Richie Norton
Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
— Richie Norton
FIND YOUR WEIRDFinding your weird is a lot like finding your voice. Although, your voice is more about your passion, your story, your way of communicating with the world.Your weird is that thing you do that people would miss if you were gone.Your weird is the thing that keeps your followers following you.Your weird puts a smile on a face or an idea in a mind or money in your pocket.Your weird is how we remember you.What's your weird?If you don't know, ask someone. Ask lots of people!When you embrace your weird, you love your life, share your story, meet new people, experience great things, freak yourself out, live on purpose, "save the whales," enjoy the moment.Find your weird.But first, breathe.
— Richie Norton
To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.
— Richie Norton
It's not what you got, but what you gave.
— Richie Norton
You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.
— Richie Norton
What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.
— Richie Norton
I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
— Richie Norton
Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.
— Richie Norton
You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
— Richie Norton
Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
— Richie Norton
When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.
— Richie Norton
Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.
— Richie Norton
You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.
— Richie Norton
IT'S TIME TO LEARN YOUR A.B.C.sAlwaysBE CONFIDENTConfidence is a feeling, feel it.AlwaysBE CREATIVECreativity is an ability, enable it.AlwaysBE CURIOUSCuriosity is a desire, desire it.AlwaysBE COMPASSIONATE Compassion is an awareness, be aware.AlwaysBE CHARITABLE Charity is generous, be generous.AlwaysBE CONSIDERATEConsideration is thoughtful, think.AlwaysBE COURTEOUSCourtesy is a mindset, be mindful.AlwaysBE COACHABLECoachability is a willingness, be willing.AlwaysBE COMMITTEDCommitment is purpose, live on purpose.AlwaysBE CARINGCaring is giving, give.
— Richie Norton
Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.
— Richie Norton
MESSAGE + MISSION = MOVEMENT Its not that you want to be on TV or the radio or in a magazine. If no one watched or listened or read, you wouldn't care about those mediums. What you want is an audience. You want to be seen and heard. You have a message to share. That said, the world has giving you your own TV channel (YouTube and any other video platform). The world has given you a radio station and even hosts (podcasts). The world has given you your own magazine and newspaper (websites, blogs, etc). YOU ARE SEEN AND HEARD. YOU ARE ALREADY STANDING ON THE STAGE. NOW WHAT?We are watching and listening.
— Richie Norton
No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.
— Richie Norton
Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!
— Richie Norton
Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. No doubt about it. The family is the greatest and most important enterprise on earth. Lead yours with passion and joy!
— Richie Norton
During the inevitable times when you feel like your work has no meaning, find meaning at home. If you need something more to feel creative or need extra cash, then moonlight: start dream projects after work hours. At some point in time, a successful side project can become your main project and you’ll be fortunate enough to make your work and your dreams become one. || You should always have meaning outside the workplace. Work to support your lifestyle — don’t live to support your work.
— Richie Norton
To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
— Richie Norton
Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.
— Richie Norton
One day employers will need to incentivize employees to actually work in an office. The office, in many ways, is obsolete. The office is more and more becoming a place for wasteful meetings and the work is actually being done at home. A Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE) is the path of future location-independent businesses.
— Richie Norton
I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
— Richie Norton
Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?
— Richie Norton
Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.
— Richie Norton
Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?
— Richie Norton
How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?
— Richie Norton
Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.
— Richie Norton
Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.
— Richie Norton
How to earn a viable standard of living while giving vent to their desire to perform creative activities is the quintessential challenge for modern humans. Some people settle for jobs filled with drudgery and in their free time immerse themselves in hobbies that provide them with personal happiness. Other people prefer to find work that makes them happy, even if this occupation requires them to live a more modest standard of living. The greater their impulse is for curiosity and creativity, the less likely that a person will exchange personal happiness for economic security.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
— Richie Norton
Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.
— Richie Norton
Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do with your life. You either move the world or the world moves you! You were born to either show the world why you were born or the world shows you why you were born, period!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
HLADE’S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.
— Arthur Bloch, Il secondo libro di Murphy : nuovi motivi per cui le cose vanno storte
In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary.
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any zeal, except in special circumstances. It is true that in these cases his zeal was clothed with a spirit of vengeance directed against the whole human race—this being his second favourite occupation. Petitbidois would have liked to hold the reins of power. This being beyond his sphere, he utilized the small driblets of authority which came his way for the purpose of casting ridicule upon established law and order, by making it act as a sort of unintelligent and, if possible, malicious Providence. 'The world is an idiot place anyway,' he would say, 'so why worry? Life is just a lottery. Let us leave the decision to chance.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle
It was the day after Thanksgiving. I was the 3 p.m. backwaiter, but the trains were running irregularly, and while I had heard one sighing into the station as I ran down the stairs, my card was out of money. Which is to say, I was late.
— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
Greatness does not come from trying to achieve the possible.
— Constance Friday
It's very hard to do when you put trust on others capability more than yours.
— kurbhatt
There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.
— Roald Dahl, Matilda
If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.
— Steven Magee
Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour you are as it is about the kind of church member you are. It is as much about who you are when you are holding a steering wheel as who you are when you are holding a Bible.
— Tim Chester, Everyday Church: Gospel Communities on Mission
Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.
— Win Borden
I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.
— Steven Magee
The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.
— Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
So unsirious work... I behave nice because I want people to behave in the same way with me.
— Deyth Banger
I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.
— Jeff Goins, The Art Of Work
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
— John Muir
The mountains are calling and I must go.
— John Muir
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
— George Carlin
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
— Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
— Brian Jacques, Taggerung
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.
— Robert Frost
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
— Aldo Leopold
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
— John Muir, The Mountains of California
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity
— John Muir, Our National Parks
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
— Charles de Lint
The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
— John Muir
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
— Gary Snyder
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
— Emma Goldman
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
— John Marsden, The Dead of Night
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
— E.B. White, Letters of E. B. White
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
— John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
— John Muir
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
— Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
— Michael Pollan
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks