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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...

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To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your f...

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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's infl...

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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll al...

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The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the inve...

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So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me."Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie.""I see," sh...

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I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really h...

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There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged...

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Sarah Orne JewettA Country Doctor

Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity - indeed to all living bein...

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The key to career advancement is appearing valuable despite all hard evidence to the contrary. … If ...

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Scott AdamsThis is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wante...

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Do extremely difficult work.That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce ...

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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's n...

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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productiv...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interacti...

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The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrange...

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The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicia...

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TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It i...

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I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.I'd rath...

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Shel SilversteinA Light in the Attic

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a p...

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There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at pea...

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All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men d...

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I completely agree that a sound sleep is the best beauty product. Sound sleep, one of the most impor...

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I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying em...

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Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

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Sigmund FreudGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many...

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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson fr...

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I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the wor...

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Without labor nothing prospers.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary chang...

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Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only...

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I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a...

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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell...

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So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop “liberating” moms by trying tomake them join the workfor...

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I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough...

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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv...

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It'...

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to d...

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The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a s...

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My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tende...

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The Only Way to Do Great Work is To Love What You Do

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Steve JobsSteve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his unifo...

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I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off si...

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These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pl...

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It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that...

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I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry...

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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work t...

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I think most of us are looking for a calling, not a job. Most of us, like the assembly-line worker, ...

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Studs TerkelWorking: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants t...

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Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight...

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One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

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Susan SontagUnder the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight...

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Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself...

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Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college,...

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We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... secu...

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But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do no...

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The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great an...

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Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.- Da...

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I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the...

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The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to apprecia...

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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a ho...

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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservativ...

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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community,...

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First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the bigg...

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr...

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When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.

You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. ...

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He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "cor...

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One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation—lettuce farming, say—would offer somewhat l...

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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...

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Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet aga...

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I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for th...

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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication bet...

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What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is ...

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