Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

A clever, adroit, masterful craftsman who wrote to the tastes of his public, Hopwood was inexhaustible in his work ethic.

Referred to variously as the Confucian hypothesis and as a debated component of the more all-encompassing Asian Development Model, there exists among political scientists and economists a theory that Confucianism plays a large latent role in the ostensibly non-Confucian cultures of modern-day East Asia, in the form of the rigorous work ethic it endowed those cultures with.

" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.

Through these work projects, Corps Members develop a strong work ethic, strengthen their leadership skills, and learn how to take personal responsibility for their actions.

Eisenhower was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and was reared in a large family in Kansas, by parents with a robust work ethic and religious background.

Category: Critics of work and the work ethic

In 2001, Finnish philosopher Pekka Himanen promoted the hacker ethic in opposition to the Protestant work ethic.

In this manifesto, the authors wrote about a hacker ethic centering around passion, hard work, creativity and joy in creating software.

Businesses enlist the services of these psychologists in order to retain employees and maintain a good work ethic.

* Increases the work ethic of those who earn very little, as employers demand more return from the higher cost of hiring these employees.

In particular, the Protestant ethic ( or more specifically, Calvinist ethic ) motivated the believers to work hard, be successful in business and reinvest their profits in further development rather than frivolous pleasures.

The phrase " work ethic " used in modern commentary is a derivative of the " Protestant ethic " discussed by Weber.

In this work he deals with the structure of Indian society, with the orthodox doctrines of Hinduism and the heterodox doctrines of Buddhism, with modifications brought by the influence of popular religiosity and finally with the impact of religious beliefs on the secular ethic of Indian society.

The concept of " work ethic " is attached to the theodicy of fortune ; thus, because of the Protestant " work ethic ," there was a contribution of higher class outcomes and more education amongst Protestants.

Those without the work ethic clung to the theodicy of misfortune, believing wealth and happiness were granted in the afterlife.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Their work was lonely.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

But his own work was evolving further.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

"(...) Without taking the argument that far, it is evident that in a market system with uneven distribution of empowering work, such as Economic Democracy ( the model of market socialism David Schweickart has developed and refers to as " economic democracy "), some workers will be more able than others to capture the benefits of economic gain.

No longer an intimate design atelier, Stone ’ s office became a stratified corporate entity and his work became uneven and formulaic.

Loggers work with heavy, moving weights and the use of tools such as chainsaws and heavy equipment on uneven and sometimes steep or unstable terrain.

The surface of the town is very uneven and generally rocky, so it was hard work to clear a farm for cultivation.

The New York Times critic described the work as uneven ; richly harmonious, but combining colour and beauty with effects " of an almost crass unskillfulness and ugliness ".

Public acceptance of this scientific revolution was, and remains, uneven but the mainstream scholarly community soon arrived at a consensus, which holds today, that Genesis 1 – 11 is a highly schematic literary work representing theology / mythology rather than history.

Gauquelin's work was accepted by the notable psychologist and statistician Hans Eysenck among others but later attempts to validate the data and replicate the effect have produced uneven results, chiefly owing to disagreements over the selection and analysis of the data set.

This arrangement was both complicated and time-consuming to maintain, as it required technician crews had to work on each engine separately and subjected automotive components to uneven wear-and-tear.

But the quality of the work is uneven because of the input of different artists and the different techniques.

TV Guide rated the film three out of four stars, calling it an " effective but uneven work " with performances that " cannot conceal the storyline's shortcomings.

It was noted that media education had been making a very uneven progress because while in one country there was an abundant amount of work towards media education, another country may have hardly even heard of the concept.

The quality of the movements in this work, composed over a number of years, is uneven, but from it comes one of Franck's most enduring compositions, the communion anthem " Panis angelicus ".

In subsequent years, wrote British Berlioz biographer David Cairns, the work was thought of as " a great sprawling white elephant, product of declining creative vitality, beautiful in patches but fatally uneven and quite unstageable —— apart from anything else, because of its length.

In his lectures, William Hazlitt praised Marston's genius for satire ; however, if the romantic critics and their successors were willing to grant Marston's best work a place among the great accomplishments of the period, they remained aware of his inconsistency, what Swinburne in a later generation called his " uneven and irregular demesne.

The end quality of a work depended largely on the quality of the execution and the competency of the assistants, leading to an uneven quality of his works.

Liliencron's work is, however, somewhat uneven, since he lacked the sustained power which makes a prose writer successful.

There he worked on systems for tracked vehicles to work on uneven ground.

Though her films were uneven, she did the finest work of her career during this period.

This resulted in uneven lighting from take to take, so eventually all that work was scrapped.

The early work received uneven reviews, and none of it sold well.

At both performances, the work was brilliantly staged but marred by the uneven vocal and acting abilities of the cast.

Preferably, this should be ridden or driven work, as round pen or longeing exercise places uneven stress on the joint.

His work, in a 3-volumes folio edition ( 1715 – 1724 ), entitled El Museo pictórico y escala óptica, consists of three parts, of which the first two, on the theory and practice of the art of painting, have had little influence ; the third, however, with the subtitle El Parnaso español pintoresco laureado, is a mine of important biographical material relating to Spanish artists, which, notwithstanding its uneven style, has procured for the author the honor of being called the Spanish Vasari.