{"id":2138,"date":"2016-07-11T16:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:01:08","slug":"quotes-on-work-and-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on work and effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve\u00a0almost completed our\u00a0first day back. Here are another dozen\u00a0quotes on work and effort that we found rather amusing today. <em>(ed. &#8211; Thank you to all those who contacted us with words of encouragement on this\u00a0day). \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. &#8211; Heywood Hale Broun<\/li>\n<li>Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. &#8211; Stevie Wonder<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can&#8217;t eat for eight hours; he can&#8217;t drink for eight hours; he can&#8217;t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. &#8211; William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li>Some people dream of success&#8230; while others wake up and work hard at it. &#8211; Author Unknown<\/li>\n<li>The brain is a wonderful organ.\u00a0 It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. &#8211; Robert Frost<\/li>\n<li>When your work speaks for itself, don&#8217;t interrupt. &#8211; Henry J. Kaiser<\/li>\n<li>He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. &#8211; Friedrich Nietzsche<\/li>\n<li>Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. &#8211; Laurence J. Peter<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.\u00a0 &#8211; Mark Burnett<\/li>\n<li>If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you&#8217;re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.<\/li>\n<li>God gave us two ends &#8211; one to sit on and one to think with.\u00a0 Success depends on which one you use.\u00a0 Head you win, tail you lose. &#8211; Author Unknown<\/li>\n<li>Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you&#8217;re just sitting still? &#8211; J. Paul Getty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve\u00a0almost completed our\u00a0first day back. Here are another dozen\u00a0quotes on work and effort that we found rather amusing today. (ed. &#8211; Thank you to all those who contacted us with words of encouragement on this\u00a0day). \u00a0 Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. &#8211; Heywood Hale Broun Ya gots to work with what you gots to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8415,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}