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The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. -- Paul Goodman
Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed. -- Archibald Marwizi
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. -- Janeane Garofalo
Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. -- Will Smith
I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. -- Will Smith
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving. -- William Baldwin
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. -- Carrie Fisher
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. -- John Updike
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. -- bell hooks
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. -- Carol Gilligan
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. -- Umberto Eco
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear. -- Candace Bushnell
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before. -- Emma Stone
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. -- Amy Adams
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' -- Audrey Hepburn
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me. -- George Lopez
As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone. -- Heather Bresch
People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far. -- Tiger Woods
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day. -- Drew Bledsoe
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. -- Robert De Niro
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead. -- Norm MacDonald
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. -- Jonathan Sacks
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. -- Erin Cummings
It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well. -- Morgan Wootten
I have a strong work ethic. -- Willie Aames
My parents had a great work ethic. -- Charlie Rose
Work ethic must exceed the expectation level. -- Tom Coughlin
I believe Americans have a strong work ethic. -- Tim Scott
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. -- Shirley MacLaine
Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough. -- Ron Conway
No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. -- Bertrand Russell
I think I have a really good work ethic. -- Ashlyn Harris
TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination. -- Hubie Brown
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic. -- Theaster Gates
Work ethic is the most important component of being successful. -- Kliff Kingsbury
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic. -- Harsha Bhogle
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. -- David Rockefeller
I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic. -- Joan Didion
Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic. -- Anita Roddick
I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic. -- Vince McMahon
Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other. -- Jack White
Horses have different levels of intelligence and different levels of work ethic. -- Anson Mount
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. -- William S. Burroughs
Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft. -- Starhawk
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. -- David Copperfield
You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. -- Zig Ziglar
The first qualification for success in my view is a strong work ethic. -- Henry Ford II
An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking. -- Theodore Sturgeon
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There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. -- Moshe Safdie
If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic ... -- Kanye West
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality. -- Albert Schweitzer
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. -- Clint Eastwood
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes. -- Amy Adams
What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it. -- Marlo Thomas
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. -- Diane Lane
I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it. -- Viggo Mortensen
I have a great work ethic - from watching Lucille Ball, not necessarily my own family. -- Jenny Lewis
I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic. -- Ray Lewis
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. -- Walter Cronkite
If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic. -- Mickey Kaus
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! -- Eva LaRue
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old. -- Lisa Leslie
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. -- Max Weber
The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation. -- Peter Yarrow
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well. -- Donny Osmond
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. -- Horst Koehler
I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. -- Horst Koehler
There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic. -- Kerry Washington
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. -- Elvis Costello
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. -- Nick Offerman
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine. -- Daniel Cormier
I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song. -- Dan Bejar
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. -- Kevin Mitnick
My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy. -- Amanda Holden
I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic. -- Alison Brie
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy. -- Sally Hawkins
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility. -- Max Weber
Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn't either. Money loves people that have great work ethic. -- Grant Cardone
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.' -- Sally Hawkins
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon. -- Thomas Friedman
Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart. -- Joe Greene
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. -- Simon Blackburn
A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom. -- Robert Spector
I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders. -- Mike Krzyzewski
The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block. -- Michael Connelly
The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job. -- Drew Carey
Face your problems head on. Do what you have to do to take care of it. Develop a good work ethic. -- George Chuvalo
My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people. -- DJ Shadow
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts. -- Tami Hoag
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action. -- Margaret Halsey
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate. -- Siobhan Fahey
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British. -- Simon Cowell
In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic. -- Graca Machel
I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community. -- Walt Frazier
I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now. -- Tim Tebow
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. -- Damian Lewis
The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. -- Tony Romo
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. -- St. Jerome
I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others. -- Nicole Kidman
A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. -- Stewart Udall
Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. -- Elbert Hubbard
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal. -- Noel Tichy
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. -- Jonathan Sacks
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important. -- Joe Namath
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists. -- Simon Cowell
I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do. -- D.A. Wallach
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. -- Max Weber

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