Constance Wu Quotes

Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

If we focus on processes, the results will automatically take care of themselves.

I'd rather do less work than do bad work.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

Activity is not output.

Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The workman still is greater than his work.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.