Aphorisms on Work

  • The only way to be productive is to produce.
  • Be the best critic of your own work.
  • Have a means to know what you did yesterday, a month ago, an year ago. 
  • Your workspace and work time are the most sacred. Don't desecrate them.
  • Tools build the work; the work builds the tools. Both of which build the builder.
  • Your work is as good as the quality of resources used to build it, that includes you.
  • Say what you'll do "once", Record what you have done "always".
  • Your past "defines" your future. Closely, monitor your progress.
  • I don't trust you, I trust your work. Trusting performance is safer than trusting the person. 
  • A routine is not multiple repetitive tasks, it is that one task that your everyday has in common.
  • To respect your work is to respect the people, who worked on it and who will work on it. That's you.  
  • The best routines are "simple and hard", not "complex and easy".
  • Either its simple or you won't do it. 
  • Its hard when you consider doing it, it's never hard when its done.
  • Plan to be lazy. Work like you aren't.
  • Hard work is the work at the intersect of boring, tiring and needed.
  • The first way to build is "anyhow". Expedience, Haste and Desperation.
  • People might see you as hard working, but you win, when you genuinely not agree.
  • If you celebrate working till complete exhaustion, then choose your office close to a hospital.
  • The first step to prove it is to convince yourself.
  • To learn something technical, is like looking at a wall and noting each dent.
  • To solve is to have solved something similar before.
  • A work well paid is a work well done. Ask hard cash.
  • A work done is worth many planned, commit less, deliver more.
  • The way of the artist is to copy, paste and edit.
  • Sweets sell the best in town. Dreams sell the best in city.
  • If you do what you can, then you dream what you can't. Dream later.
  • Work builds on past work. Save your file.
  • To evolve is to learn from your past. Revise regularly.
  • You evolve, so should your work. Update often.
  • It could be correct to question, but is it safe to?
  • Do what you love, or keep your love life out of work. Your call.
  • Either you learn to work or learn to pretend. 
  • 10,000 hours to mastery is 8 hours for 4 years, which is what a 9 to 5 does.

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