Work Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barack Obama, Jamais Cascio, Henry Latham Doherty, Huey Long, Danilo Dolci and many others.
Anything is possible if you’re willing to work for it.
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Work is what you do so that sometime you won’t have to do it anymore.
Men now monopolize the upper levels… depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
You are not your resume, you are your work.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Play is the work of childhood.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.
I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven‘t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
I think I know I’ve been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I’m working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I’VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, ‘IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?’
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you’re working at.
Someone has to do everything that is done.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen.
A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.
It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.
There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.
Work alone is noble.
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers–to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can’t quite have it all, but that hasn’t stopped us from wanting it all for them.
Working gets in the way of living.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Sexual harassment at work… is it a problem for the self-employed?
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.
Unraveling the web of Penelope.
It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
It is useless work that darkens the heart.
My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on.
I don’t like work… but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
Labor is God’s education.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Don’t mistake activity with achievement.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us
Putting women’s traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It’s the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.
He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you’re being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you’re putting positive energy into the world, and you’re appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it’ll work out.
Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the work he does. When there is no feeling to accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
A leader‘s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
None but those who work are entitled to eat.
I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.
It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.
You’re not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.
Every day, I want to be a winner. I want to train my best; I want to work my best.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Boy, the things I do for England.
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
I believe that good things come to those who work.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn’t particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Your life’s work is something you love to do, something your talents can find full expression through. If we enjoy our work, we are sure to bring our creativity and enthusiasm to it.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Art is the path of the creator to his work.
I will keep working hard!
I think about my work every minute of the day.
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I’m constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn’t that what’s important?
I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
If you don’t have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it’s begun.
The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream.
It’s not so much what the job gives you, it’s what you give to the job.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.
I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it–perhaps even more.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.В You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
To have faith doesn’t mean you get any less frustrated when you don’t do your best, but you know that it’s not life and death. Take what you’re given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.
An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.
That’s the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it’s more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
I’ve worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there’s no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There’s so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you’ll find a way to do what you love.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can’t make you feel shame without your participation.
Work like you don’t need the money.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
A man has got to keep his extrication.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living.
The important thing is not to get bogged down
In what he has to do to earn a living.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.
Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you’ve heard of the concept. It’s called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.
I’m doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I’m really grateful to have something that I’m passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Work first, and then rest.
Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
Work, work, work, is the main thing.
Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Intellectual ”work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
I know people dont think I work.
It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not…
My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
Don’t worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
A human being isn’t meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn’t just for work.
What I’m doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It’s like anything else. The only time it doesn’t really feel like work to me is when I’m on stage and doing what I’ve prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Drank a lot of take home pay.
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you’ve got into it.
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee‘s knees, and it’s not true.
Give no man sympathy because he has to work – it is his blessing that he can.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.
Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
Patience is also a form of action.
It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
how to get old ones out.
how to get old ones out.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.
It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
When men are employed they are best contented.
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other.
I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don’t work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do – writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information – is pure joy. It’s what I was called to do.
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
I’ve worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I’ve also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it’s important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I’ve been helped a lot in my life.
The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you’ll achieve it.
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.
Failure has gone to his head.
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.
Give a civil servant a good case and he’ll wreck it with clichГ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.
The harder I work, the luckier I become.
Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
One curator said he didn’t want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to a man’s work.’
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation… Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Just because you’re part of ‘Twilight‘ does not mean you’re a superstar. It means that you’re given the opportunity to maybe become one later if you work hard. Once fandom goes away, which it will very soon, it’s all about having your priorities straight and working hard.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher‘s actions.
Everyone has complicated lives, but the more you can simplify it and make it work for you, the better it is going to be.
Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating.
You will have ups and downs – but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
If a guy doesn’t work hard and doesn’t play well, he can’t lead anything. All he is, is a talker.
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can’t vote.
Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
The insignificant labor, the great create.
If you don’t find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.
Don’t say yes until I’ve finished talking. – Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.
While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
We collectively, to get things done, work together as a team. Because the work really happens horizontally in our company, not vertically. Products are horizontal. It takes hardware plus software plus services to make a killer product.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn’t fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
Without work all life goes rotten.
If the vegan diet doesn’t work out for you, at least you can do something for animals – whether that’s the way you eat or the way you dress, everything helps, really.
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I’m happy that people respond well to the work I’m doing now. If anyone admires what I’m doing in any way, then I’m really proud of it.
As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it’s true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.