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There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally ...

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Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a sing...

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Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble...

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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...

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I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider mysel...

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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....

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He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make som...

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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who...

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I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be wor...

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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malc...

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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...

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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with...

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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to...

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Isaac AsimovThe Secret of the Universe

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...

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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I...

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Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around...

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Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit ...

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Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the emp...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

If you're not inthe mood, you can't do that stuff right.

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability ...

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If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks w...

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the in...

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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't ...

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There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really wa...

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No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

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There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers...

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Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such pr...

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So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back ...

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Jack LondonTo Build a Fire and Other Stories

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Oh...

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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been tra...

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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I...

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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligenc...

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Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a da...

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I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by ...

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Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer...

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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

In today's YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that contr...

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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mosso...

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I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

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James RichardsonInterglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

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James RichardsonVectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to wo...

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Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man h...

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Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except f...

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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to wor...

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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to w...

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A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...

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Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantit...

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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find importan...

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I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came...

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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil righ...

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I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section t...

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I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more ...

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The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We woul...

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I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another p...

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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work ...

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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn d...

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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitud...

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By the work one knows the workman.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.There's no effort which is not beau...

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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charg...

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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from y...

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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder ...

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Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you d...

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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in a...

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I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to g...

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I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with ...

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Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it becaus...

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Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, mor...

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Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like...

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It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at ...

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Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips a...

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life brin...

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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea...

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It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the...

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Jerome K. JeromeThree Men in a Boat

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentiet...

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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-...

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Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know ...

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's e...

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Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationshi...

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My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...

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Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is t...

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When people say the word "convention," they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employe...

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We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that'...

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If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

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Jim HensonIt's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...

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Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.