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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
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Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
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What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
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I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.
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In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]
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Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
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To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
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A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.
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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!
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Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
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It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Work alone is noble.
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
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Every man is the son of his own works.
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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
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I believe that good things come to those who work.
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Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Work is more fun than fun.
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
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I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ethic.
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How do I work? I grope.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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Work is victory.
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My work is a game -- a very serious game.
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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
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There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.
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Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.