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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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Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. C...

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I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...

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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ...

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly m...

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He that can work is a born king of something.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

A good horse should be seldom spurred.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and p...

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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your ti...

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Bodily agitation, then, is an enemy to the spirit. And by agitation I do not necessarily mean exerci...

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Thomas MertonNo Man Is an Island

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or usef...

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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...

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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is ...

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I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daug...

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I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored ...

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I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I thi...

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Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They we...

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Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Satu...

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Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have...

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When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not e...

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I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy p...

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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind i...

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Passion is never enough neither is skill.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise...

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All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who...

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I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...

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Passion. As you can see, I've lived quite a long time, which is to say I've been working for quite a...

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Tove JanssonThe Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories

I'm so pathetically eager for people to love D.C. It's so sad. It's like I work for the chamber of c...

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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she...

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What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your out...

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Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. O...

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