• A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 33 reads

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 45 votes · 89 reads

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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 wor

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 32 reads

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• Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

  

  John Williams

  MusicianAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

  

  Frederic Chopin

  MusicianPolish1810 · 19th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 27 votes · 47 reads

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• At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 65 reads

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• Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 169 reads

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• Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 56 reads

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• But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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• By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 116 reads

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• Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 44 votes · 3 reads

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• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 186 reads

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 43 reads

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• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 138 reads

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• Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 30 votes · 23 reads

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• Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 50 votes · 129 reads

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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 59 votes · 3 reads

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• Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 45 votes · 14 reads

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• Every man is the son of his own works.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 87 reads

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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.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 83 reads

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 20 reads

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• Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

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  Louis XIV

  RoyaltyFrench1638 · 17th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 54 reads

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• Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 167 reads

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• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.3 · 42 votes · 5 reads

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• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 103 reads

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

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  Leonhard Euler

  MathematicianSwiss1707 · 18th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 189 reads

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• How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 57 votes · 12 reads

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• How do I work? I grope.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 24 reads

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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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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 44 reads

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• I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 106 reads

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• I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 113 reads

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• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 5 reads

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• I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 75 reads

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• I do not like work even when someone else does it.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 59 reads

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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.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 28 reads

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• I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 110 reads

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 168 reads

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• I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 125 reads

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• I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 105 reads

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• I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 61 votes · 190 reads

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• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 60 votes · 72 reads

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• I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 11 reads

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• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 125 reads

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• I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 163 reads

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• I see what keeps people young: work!

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 164 reads

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• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 189 reads

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• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particul

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 109 reads

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• I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 62 votes · 75 reads

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• I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 182 reads

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• If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 146 reads

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• If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 104 reads

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• If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 60 reads

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• If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 70 reads

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 44 reads

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• If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 45 votes · 30 reads

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• If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 175 reads

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• In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all P

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 132 reads

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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.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 127 reads

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• Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 10 votes · 119 reads

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• Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 122 reads

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• Inspiration comes of working every day.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 156 reads

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• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 161 reads

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• It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 39 votes · 133 reads

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• It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 78 reads

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• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 171 reads

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• It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 97 reads

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 155 reads

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• It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 124 reads

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• Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 4 reads

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• Labor diligently to increase your property.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 44 votes · 74 reads

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 46 reads

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• Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 173 reads

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• Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 140 reads

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• Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 83 reads

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• Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 62 votes · 33 reads

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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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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 61 reads

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