Work

Unless your department has a budget infinitely greater than most, you will not get rich being a volunteer director/coordinator, but your life will be indescribably enriched by the people you meet and work with. A wise lady once told me that when you find your ideal job, you will do it for less than they pay you and when you find your calling you will do it for free. This is my ideal job. I hope you find yours - Martin Tichenor, Volunteer Director for a medium security prison in Missouri

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it - Henry Ford

They talked, and I listened....They talked 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 Monday through Friday life rather than a void. Perhaps immortality was part of that quest. To be remembered is their wish. I was consistently astonished by the extraordinary dreams of ordinary people. No matter how beguiling the times, no matter how dissembling the official language, those we call ordinary are aware of a sense of personal worth, or more often, the lack of it, in the work they do?most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirit - Studs Terkel, talking about his 1974 book, "Working"

The work you?re meant to do lies at the intersection of what you do uniquely well, what is needed in the world that no one else is precisely meeting, and what you have passion for - Dave Pollard, http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2010/05/18/the-hard-part-is-finding-people-…

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world?s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this, with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell - W.E. B. DuBois

The idea that to make a man work you've got to put gold in front of his eyes is a growth not an axiom. We've done it for so long we've forgotten there's any other way - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) U.S. writer. This Side of Paradise (1920)

The best way for (middle) managers to stay in business is to become a business - Anon

The best form of charity I know is the art of meeting a payroll - John Paul Getty

Some people see things that are and ask, "Why?" Some people dream of things that never were and ask, "Why not?" Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that - George Carlin

Remember it's the cynics in the organisation who care, not the people who are just trying the say the right thing - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/05/in_derrogation_of_the_…