Jordan Peterson on Work Quotes

"Be precise in your speech."

"Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens."

"The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it."

"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."

"Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)."

"You are not everything you could be, and you know it."

"Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that."

"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master."

"You need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering."

"If you don't choose your sacrifice, your sacrifice will be chosen for you."

"Make a schedule and stick to it. It’s not a prison, it’s a plan for a good day."

"Opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."

"Pick up the heaviest thing you can and carry it."

"The alternative to valuing things is to find everything meaningless."

"The creative person is always the one that disrupts the structure."

"The hierarchy of competence is not a hierarchy of power."

"There is no difference between responsibility and meaning."

"To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life."

"Writing is thinking. If you can't write, you can't think."

"You have to negotiate with yourself like you’re negotiating with someone that you care about."

"Aim at something. Discipline yourself. Or suffer the consequences of chaos."

"You pay for everything you do and everything you don't do."

"Ask yourself what you would require to be willing to undertake the job that you have to do."

"Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't."

"Competence is the best protector against tyranny."

"Confront the chaos of potential and transform it into habitable order."

"Don't be a slave to stupid rules."

"Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction."

"Dress like the person you want to be."

"If you can’t order your own house, you can’t order the world."

"If you don't say what you think, you kill your unborn self."

"It is better to do something badly than to do nothing."

"It is necessary to aim at the highest good that you can conceive of."