Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. --Rita Mae Brown (in Squeeze Out Your Creative Juices)

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. --Stephen Nachmanovitch (in How the Ancient World Used Color)

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Start with what they know; build with what they have. But with the best of leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, we have done this ourselves. --Lao Tzu (in Third Way Leadership)

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. --Marianne Williamson (in A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral)

A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Where there is no gift, there is no art. --Lewis Hyde (in The Artist Who Gives It All Away)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell (in How to Live a Single-Tasking Life)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs (in Remembering Steve Jobs' Insights)

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written. --Robert Kennedy (in Inspiring a Life of Immersion)

In the final analysis, there is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed. --Claire Booth Luce (in Honesty Paid Off For Dave)

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. --Arnold Toynbee (in A Guide to Finding Your Passion)

When you start loving what you are learning, it will no longer look like work. Everything will fall in place after that. Just fall in love. --A. K. Raha (in Competing with Love)

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. --Steve Jobs (in How To Find Your Purpose)

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. --Marge Piercy (in The Art of Motivating Employees)

When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. --Betty Bender (in Business Lessons from a Quiet Gardener)

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. --Alan Cohen (in Why We Stink At At Taking Breaks)

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. --Amelia Earhart (in The Ripple of One Small Act)

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. --William Arthur Ward (in Dolphin Murals: An Artist Turns Activist)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in Solving Gen Y's Passion Problem)

If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the people to collect wood and dont assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea --Antoine de Saint-Exupery (in The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us)

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve. --Grenville Kleiser quotes (in See Good Intentions)

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. --Mary Oliver (in Take Your Life Back)

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. --Andrew Carnegie (in The Soul of Teamwork)

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. --Studs Terkel (in What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work)

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. ---Nelson Mandela- (in Food for Your Soul: An Interview with Satish Kumar)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell (in Are We Losing Our Focus?)

Work is love made visible. --Khalil Gibran (in 8 Ways to Find More Meaning at Work)

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. --Alexander Graham Bell (in Q&A With Daniel Goleman)

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. --Marianne Williamson (in A PhD Student Turned Fruit Picker For Her Community)

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. --Mary Anne Radmacher (in Vancouver's Duck Lady)

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. ---Leonardo da Vinci- (in Learning From Leonardo: Decoding The Notebooks Of A Genius)

The key to getting lots of strangers to work together is not to create an endless stream of new laws or institutions but to create a set of shared values. Laws are something you merely obey. Values are something you feel. --Edward Slingerland (in Trying Not To Try: Cultivating the Art of Spontaneity)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in An Illustrated Poster For People Who Love Their Work)

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood --Fred Rogers (in The Science of Play)

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (in A Humanitarian's 4 Decades Long Adventure In Africa)

The reason why things work is because of love. --Jeffrey Wright (in Mr. Wright's Law of Love)

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. --David Brower (in The New Farmers)

Don't do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work. --Thich Nhat Hạnh (in Three Benefits To Mindfulness At Work)

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. --Lilla Watson (in How I Work To Protect Women From Honor Killings)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Anonymous (in How to Run a Company with (Almost) No Rules)

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. --Confucius (in What Makes A Great Workplace?)

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. --Picasso (in How To Resist Social Distractions)

These grassroots efforts are like a global immune system in that they are drawn to the wounded places and they begin to work. --Michael Lerner (in Michael Lerner: Whispers of a Wounded Healer)

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. --Mary Anne Radmacher (in The Prison Freedom Project: Transforming Lives Through Yoga)

Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. --Stephen DeStaebler (in Body & Spirit: A Conversation with Sculptor Stephen DeStaebler)

Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can. Imagine immensities. --Debbie Millman (in Fixed vs Growth: Two Mindsets that Shape Our Lives)

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. --Mary Oliver (in How To Pay Attention)

We design human nature by designing the institutions within which people live and work. --Barry Schwartz (in The Way We Think About Work Is Broken)

I believe that working only from the conscious limits one's creativity -- whereas transcending consciousness can enhance the inner life of a work of art. --Denis Brown (in The Art of Sho: A Calligraphers's Pilgrimage)

Wholeness -- a state in which consciousness and the unconscious work together in harmony. --Daryl Sharp (in Seeking Wholeness)

For a long time I have known that our interior world is the soil in which the seeds of art take root. Without this seed in which the magic part of life is hidden, and from which a work of art can be born, there is no art, there is no music. --Thomas de Hartmann (in On Art & Mindfulness )