Work Quotes
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“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
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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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“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
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“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
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“Without labor nothing prospers.”
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
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“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
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“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
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“Quality is everyone's responsibility.”
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“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
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“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!”
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“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
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“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
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“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
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“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
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“When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.”
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“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”
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“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.”
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“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
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“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”
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“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
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“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”
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“Honor lies in honest toil.”
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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
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“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
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“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
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“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.”
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“Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”
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“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
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“Work is much more fun than fun.”
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”
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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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“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.”
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“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”
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“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”
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“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
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“Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”
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“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”
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“Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.”
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“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.”
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“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
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“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
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“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”
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“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
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“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
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“Inspiration comes of working every day.”
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“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”
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“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
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“No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.”
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“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”
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“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
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“For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.”
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“Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
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“Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.”
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“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”
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“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”
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“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
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“Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”
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“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
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“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.”
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“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”
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“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
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“By the work one knows the workman.”
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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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“No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.”
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“Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.”
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“Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”
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“I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.”
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“Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.”
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“Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.”
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“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.”
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“One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.”
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“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.”
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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
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“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
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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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“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
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“I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.”
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
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“The harder you work… and visualize something, the luckier you get.”
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“And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.”
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“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
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“I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.”
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“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.”
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“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.”
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“Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.”
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“There is no substitute for hard work.”
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“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'”
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“It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.”
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“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”
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“You're blessed if you have the strength to work.”
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“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
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“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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“Honest labor bears a lovely face.”
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“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
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“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”
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“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.”
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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.”
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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
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“There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.”
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“Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.”
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“Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.”
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“I'm working myself to death.”
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“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
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“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”
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“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
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“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
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“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
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“It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.”
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“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
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“Every man loves what he is good at.”
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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”
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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
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“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
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“Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.”
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“Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!”
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“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
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“One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.”
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“Management must manage!”
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“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
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“I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.”
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“What you are will show in what you do.”
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“There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
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“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.”
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“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”
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“Quality is pride of workmanship.”
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“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
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“The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.”
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“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”
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“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.”
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“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”
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“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”
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“I always got my work done before playing.”
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“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”
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“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.”
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“I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.”
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“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”
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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
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“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”
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“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
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“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
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“I work to stay alive.”
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“My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.”
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“Labor gives birth to ideas.”
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“The idea of having a steady job is appealing.”
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“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”
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“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
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“We work to become, not to acquire.”
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“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
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“I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.”
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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
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“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
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“It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.”
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“For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.”
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“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
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“You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.”
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“I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.”
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“As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.”
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“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
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“I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.”
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“Work alone is noble.”
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“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”
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“Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.”
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“I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.”
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“If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.”
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“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
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“The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.”
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“Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.”
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“And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.”
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“After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.”
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“On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.”
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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
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“I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.”
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“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
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“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
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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 do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”
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“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
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“I'm just so happy, and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.”
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“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”
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“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
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“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”
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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”
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“I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.”
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“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.”
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“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
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“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
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“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
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“Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
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“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference.”
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“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
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“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.”
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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
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“It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.”
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“Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.”
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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
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“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
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“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.”
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“It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
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“Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.”
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“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.”
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“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
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“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.”
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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
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“My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.”
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“Love and work… work and love, that's all there is.”
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“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'”
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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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“With hard work and dedication, anything is possible.”
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“Don't give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you're going to get out of it.”
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“Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.”
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“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
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“It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.”
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“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”
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“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”
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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
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“My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.”
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“The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.”
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“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
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“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
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“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
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“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.”
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“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
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“Work hard, play hard, dream big, love loads, laugh as much as you can, and give back.”
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“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”
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“Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.”
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“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
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“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.”
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“Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.”
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“Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.”
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
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“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”
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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
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“Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.”
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“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
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“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
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“Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.”
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“Stay humble, and work hard every day no matter what happens.”
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“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
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“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
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“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
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“Many hands make light work.”
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“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.”
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“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.”
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“God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.”
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“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
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“Nobody starts off as a hero, that does not happen even in films. It is passion, hard work, and perseverance that makes the difference. Dream big, follow your passion and work hard towards fulfilling it and it will pay well.”
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“No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.”
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“Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.”
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“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
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“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”
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“A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard.”
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“If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.”
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“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”
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“We are immortal until our work on earth is done.”
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“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
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“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.”
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“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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“I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.”
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“If you work hard, have the right mindset, right intentions, things will fall into place.”
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“Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.”
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“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
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“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”
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“I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.”
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“There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.”
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“I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.”
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“The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.”
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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
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“I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.”
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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
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“Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.”
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“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
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“The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.”
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“Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.”
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“Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.”
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“Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.”
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“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”
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“He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.”
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“My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.”
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“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”
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“You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
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“Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.”
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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
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“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
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“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
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“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.”
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“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.”
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“Nothing is given to you. Everything is earned. You have to have that mindset that you have to work every single day. Learn every single day.”
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“Plagiarism is one of the great academic sins. It has the power to destroy a scholar or writer and turn a lifetime's work to dust.”
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“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
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“It's not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.”
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“When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.”
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“I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.”
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“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
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“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.”
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“Until you're the best at something, you've always got to work on everything.”
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“Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.”
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“I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry.”
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“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.”
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“Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.”
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“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.”
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“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”
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“The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.”
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
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“I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.”
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“Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.”
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“You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.”
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“A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.”
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“People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”
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“A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work.”
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“For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I'm not perfect, it's really frustrating. I'm really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.”
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“Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.”
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“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
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“I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.”
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“I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.”
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“Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.”
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“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”
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“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”
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“The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.”
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“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.”
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“Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.”
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“If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.”
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“Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.”
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“As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.”
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“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”
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“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”
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“I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.”
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“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
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“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”
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“Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.”
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“Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.”
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“Dream big, anything's possible once you have that dream. You just have to work at it every single day.”
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“Our work is never over.”
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“With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.”
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“Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.”
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“I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.”
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“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”
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“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.”
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“We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it's through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.”
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“I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.”
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“Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
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“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.”
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“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”
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“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
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“You're always becoming; you've never arrived. And I use that day by day just for me to work hard each and every day, and know that no matter how good I worked out today, no matter how good I thought I was today, I can always get better and always be a better person.”
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“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”
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“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”
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“To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.”
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“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
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“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”
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“If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
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“I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.”
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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
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“The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.”
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“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
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“To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition. I'm also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg's name is very special.”
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“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”
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“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
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“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.”
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“I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.”
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“Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.”
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“I don't live to work; I work to live.”
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“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.”
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“At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.”
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“Play is the work of childhood.”
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“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
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“Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.”
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“I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.”
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“My story is going to be completely different than someone else's story in terms of hard work. What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.”
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“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'”
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“I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.”
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“I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.”
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“It's just racing. Sometimes you have difficult moments, and then you try to work hard, and you keep working hard, and you overcome the situation. It's as simple as that.”
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“Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.”
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“An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.”
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
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“The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.”
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“When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.”
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“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
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“The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'”
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“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”
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“I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.”
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“Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.”
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“The price of championships will never change. It's been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.”
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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
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“It keeps me humble just to know exactly where I came from and all the hard work I had to put in to be here. It feels good to reminisce about the past.”
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“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
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“The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.”
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“Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”
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“Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.”
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“You try something, it doesn't work, and maybe people even criticize you. In a fixed mindset, you say, 'I tried this, it's over.' In a growth mindset, you look for what you've learned.”
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“I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.”
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“Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.”
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“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”
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“A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.”
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“I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.”
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“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”
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“Developing a resiliency, a grit, a level of poise, a composure, a level of perspective, confidence, courage, compassion. These are all things you can work on daily.”
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“Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.”
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“An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.”
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“To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.”
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“Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.”
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“It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.”
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“Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.”
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“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don't complain; just work harder… Never give up.”
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“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
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“If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.”
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“Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.”
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“People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.”
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“Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.”
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“The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.”
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“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”
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“God buries His workmen but carries on His work.”
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“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
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“I wouldn't be where I am right now, and have the right work ethic and discipline, if it weren't for all the indie films I did. We weren't pampered and were pretty much on our own.”
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“If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.”
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“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
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“I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.”
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“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
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“I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.”
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“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
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“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
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“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”
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“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”
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“Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.”
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“Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.”
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“Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.”
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“Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.”
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“Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.”
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“No one really sees pro athletes behind the scenes. They don't know how hard they work. They don't see how you work on the basics. They couldn't possibly know. You wouldn't think that someone who hits like Alex Rodriguez needs to use a tee every day. But that's how he stayed on top of it.”
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“No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.”
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“It is teamwork that makes the dream work.”
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“Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.”
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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
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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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“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”
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“If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.”
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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
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“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”
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“When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.”
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“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.”
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“Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?”
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“There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.”
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“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
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“Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.”
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“It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.”
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“If anyone remembers me, it's about my hard work.”
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“The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.”
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“Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.”
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“The work is the work. The work is not me.”
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“There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.”
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“The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.”
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“You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.”
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“An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.”
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“Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.”
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“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.”
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“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
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“The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.”
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“It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.”
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“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”
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“Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.”
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“I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.”
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“It's a great feeling when your work is appreciated.”
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“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”
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“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.”
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“A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.”
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“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.”
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“I don't want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic.”
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“Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.”
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“While the four-day work week is not yet universal, most citizens enjoy the pleasures of added three-day weekends during the year. These extra days, as well as monthlong vacations, are used in the pursuit of our studies, hobbies and travels - and often all three are indulged at the same time.”
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“Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.”
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“The more work you put in, and the more you constantly and consistently give good performances against good opponents and constantly exceed people's expectations, the more you really endear yourself to the crowd. That's how your career takes off - it's just consistency and time.”
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“I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.”
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“Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.”
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“People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.”
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“Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.”
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“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”
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“Life is not decided by lines on a palm but by the power of the will, hard work and discipline.”
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“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.”
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“When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.”
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“When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.”
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“Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean that it was and you don't work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out.”
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“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
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“In football, everything is possible, from the moment you work and you believe in your qualities.”
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“Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.”
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“It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.”
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“We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.”
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“I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.”
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“A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.”
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“Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.”
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“The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.”
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“If you work hard, nothing is impossible.”
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“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
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“It was incredible being on tour with Taylor Swift: she was the epitome of a professional, and she works so hard. For someone as successful as her to work that hard every night - truly inspirational.”
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“I used to work with autistic children, and they said a lot of funny things to me.”
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“I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.”
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“I'm an early riser. I work out really hard. I push myself; I get my job done, and at the end of the day, there's a Guinness waiting for me.”
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“Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.”
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“It's often been said that you learn more from losing than you do from winning. I think, if you're wise, you learn from both. You learn a lot from a loss. You learn what is it that we're not doing to get to where we want to go. It really gets your attention and it really motivates the work ethic of your team when you're not doing well.”
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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
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“The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.”
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“I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.”
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“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”
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“I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.”
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“You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.”
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“Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.”
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“Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
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“We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.”
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“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.”
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“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
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“Life is too short to work so hard.”
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“The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.”
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“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
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“No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.”
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
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“I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.”
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“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
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“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.”
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“The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.”
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“Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.”
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“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
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“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”
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“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
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“I'm in control of my own destiny, I suppose, and my own development if I put the work in.”
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“With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.”
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“The job is so fantastic, you don't need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.”
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“My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.”
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“Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.”
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“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”
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“Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.”
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“You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.”
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“If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.”
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“I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.”
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“You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.”
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“We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.”
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“Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.”
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“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
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“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”
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“It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.”
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“All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.”
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“I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.”
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“Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.”
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“Winning or not winning an award doesn't affect me. I just like to do my work in the best possible manner.”
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“The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.”
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“I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.”
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“When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.”
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“I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.”
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“While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.”
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“I found what I was looking for at Langley. This was what a research mathematician did. I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.”
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“I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.”
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“All I was doing was trying to get home from work.”
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“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”
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“Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.”
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“You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.”
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“Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.”
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“As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.”
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“A lot of people mistake habit for hard work. Doing something over and over again is not working hard.”
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“No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.”
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“One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.”
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“There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.”
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“If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.”
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“I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.”
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“There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true… I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.”
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“Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.”
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“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”
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“Self-government won't work without self-discipline.”
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“We can build a much brighter future where humans are relieved of menial work using AI capabilities.”
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“Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.”
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“You have to understand that every negotiation isn't about taking everything off the table. It's cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we're done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.”
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“If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.”
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“Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!”
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“Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.”
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“I started at the bottom and worked my way up. I think that shows hard work pays off. A good thing takes a while.”
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“The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.”
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“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.”
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“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.”
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“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
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“Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.”
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“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
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“If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.”
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“God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.”
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“There were a lot of years that I was trying to do things that other people wanted me to do. But you have to follow your heart. Believe that you have a unique group of talents and abilities that are going to allow you to accomplish something in an area that interests you. Work at that and try to make some kind of contribution to your community.”
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“Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.”
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“When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.”
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“I'm confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I'm strict about my work goals and training.”
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“Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle the roots of conflict and violence.”
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“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.”
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“If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.”
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“The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.”
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“Life is a work in progress.”
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“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”
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“All you need is heart, work ethic, and to dream big.”
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“The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.”
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“Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.”
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“It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.”
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“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
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“Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.”
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“I have one message for young musicians around the world: Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.”
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“I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.”
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“Every day, just enjoy it. It goes by so fast. But put the work in and you'll be rewarded.”
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“The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.”
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“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.”
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“It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.”
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“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.”
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“I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.”
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“Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.”
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“The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.”
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“Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.”
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“There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.”
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“People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.”
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“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
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“When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.”
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“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
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“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
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“Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.”
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“I used to work in 'Big Brother' in the third series, I was a logger, which was the worst of all jobs, you had to sit and watch what happens and type it into a computer.”
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“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.”
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“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.”
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“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.”
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“As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.”
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“There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.”
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“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
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“Individual awards are always great. You know, they show you that your hard work has paid off. But I'm in a team sport, right? So, winning the ultimate trophy as a team is more important at the end of the day.”
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“Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.”
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“Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.”
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“Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.”
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“I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.”
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“No, we don't control who our parents are. We don't control what color we are. We don't control what home we are born into. But we control our attitude. We control our work ethic. We control our drive and our commitment.”
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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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“When you see validation for a life's work and dedication, it's a beautiful day.”
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“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”
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“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
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“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
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“It's not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.”
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“Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.”
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“When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.”
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“I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.”
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“If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.”
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“A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.”
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“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”
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“Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.”
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“To be one of the best to ever play the game? I think I have the ability to do that. But I've got to work hard. If I just keep talking and don't put some work in, it's not going to happen.”
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“Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”
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“The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.”
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“Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
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“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”
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“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
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“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”
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“I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.”
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“It's not my job to tell people what a work means.”
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“Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.”
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“Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
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“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
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“Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.”
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“If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.”
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“My beliefs are that good people who work hard get their rewards. There will be struggle at times and hurdles along the way - life throws up all sorts - but in the end, you will prevail if you stick to the right path.”
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“Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.”
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“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”
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“We know that men are saved by repentance and faith, and whoever does call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But salvation is a supernatural work of God that will always produce fruit. And the evidence, not the cause, but the evidence of salvation is a changed life, a changing life.”
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“Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?”
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“I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.”
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“When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.”
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“Respecting people is an important part of life, whether it's the person doing janitorial work or the person above you. It doesn't matter who you are: I'm going to respect you.”
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“Whether it's the grind of the day to day, or a crisis, we all need to work together because that's what great public service is all about.”
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“Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.”
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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
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“What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.”
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“Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.”
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“Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.”
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“Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.”
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“One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.”
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“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”
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“I don't work at being ordinary.”
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“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
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“I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.”
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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
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“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.”
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“Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.”
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“Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.”
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“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.”
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“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
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“Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.”
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“A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”
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“I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.”
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“Anybody who doesn't see the impact of climate change is really, I would say, myopic. They don't see the reality. It's so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
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“I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!'”
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“It was a great learning experience to work with all the stalwarts associated with 'Beyond the Clouds.' It's indeed a strong team to be working with.”
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“It's nice to work with your own alma mater.”
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“'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.”
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“I promise hard work and I will do everything to help my team mates.”
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“When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.”
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“Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.”
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“Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children's listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance. It brings out the very best in the children as they work collaboratively with their peers and teachers.”
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“If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.”
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“I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.”
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“Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.”
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“My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.”
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“Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.”
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“You can accomplish anything in life if you are willing to work for it.”
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“Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.”
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“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
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“Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.”
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“I'm really excited to see what the future hold for me in terms of work. It's going to be hard, but it's going to be good hard work, and I'm really excited for the challenge that awaits me.”
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“Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.”
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“Anybody that wants to be something greater than themselves, that understands that bringing meaning and intention into work and bringing those two things together, is a member of the 'we generation,' and the money tends to follow.”
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“Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.”
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“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.”
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“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.”
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“I think if you are passionate about what you want to be or where you want to go and you work very hard to that goal, it will happen. And, yes, you'll be knocked down and you'll have some tough times. And it won't be easy all the time, but the rewards are pretty amazing, especially if you stay true to yourself.”
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“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.”
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“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”
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“We live and work in a fishbowl, with rumors and accusations flowing constantly.”
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“It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top - in business or in sports.”
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“Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”
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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
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“Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.”
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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
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“Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.”
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“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.”
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“Sometimes you just have to calm down a little bit and let the system work itself.”
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“You don't know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can't pay their wages, can't buy their food. Hard times are when the autoworkers are out of work, and they tell 'em to go home.”
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“I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.”
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“Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.”
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“The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.”
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“You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.”
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“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
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“Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.”
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“You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.”
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“To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.”
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“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.”
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“The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes… That's the magic right there.”
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“At the end of the day, it's not where you get drafted. It's not going to set you in stone with how good you're going to be in your NFL career. Obviously, it's being surrounded by the right people, the right coaches, how you present yourself, how you work hard.”
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“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.”
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“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”
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“The main goal of the International Space Station is to work on peaceful projects. In space, we're all people from Earth.”
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“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
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“The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach's job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.”
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“It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for the community, and we owe it to our law enforcement heroes to do whatever we can to make their work safer.”
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“I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.”
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“When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.”
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“I think the path is different for everybody. Go after the doors that are open to you. That has always been my motto getting into the music business. Do the things that seem to be good opportunities and work hard at it. Try to make good decisions and be nice. Hopefully all of that will pay off at some point.”
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“The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.”
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“I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.”
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“I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.”
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“I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.”
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“I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.”
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“My wish is to be known only thru my work.”
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“I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.”
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“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”
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“A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.”
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“The days you work are the best days.”
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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”
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“I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.”
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“Sometimes when you turn a hobby into a job, it becomes work.”
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“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.”
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“I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along.”
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“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”
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“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.”
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“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
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“All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.”
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“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
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“I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.”
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“Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.”
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“When you're the underdog, you just lay low and work.”
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“Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.”
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“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.”
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“I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.”
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“Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”
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“Whatever you wanna be, just, at the end of the day, if you're being a good person, which is not hard to be, and you're putting positive energy into the world, and you're appreciative and loving to the people around you that care about you and everybody in general, then it'll work out.”
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“I wait and take on projects that I think can work.”
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“By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.”
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
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“In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.”
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“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
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“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”
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“You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.”
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“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
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“All I've done is work hard to get better and better every single year to become the best catcher I can be.”
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“Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.”
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“I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.”
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“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”
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“The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.”
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“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
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“I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.”
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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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“I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.”
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“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.”
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“The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.”
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“We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.”
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“I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.”
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“I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.”
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“We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is going to be.”
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“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.”
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“There is no magic formula to success. It is down to hard work and graft on the training ground and having a good attitude.”
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“Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.”
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“I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.”
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“Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fearful people never trust the other side.”
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“When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.”
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“You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.”
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“Talent is given by God but you should respect it by doing good work.”
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“I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.”
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“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”
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“It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.”
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“Just because I'm young doesn't mean I didn't work hard to get to where I am.”
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“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.”
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“Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.”
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“States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.”
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“It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.”
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“The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.”
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“All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.”
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“Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.”
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“I guess I feel the most powerful when someone tries to take my power or belittle me or insult me, and it doesn't work.”
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“You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.”
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“Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.”
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“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”
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“I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'”
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“Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.”
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“I've got a brother who works for the Red Cross, another brother is working with the homeless in France, some who work in restaurants or as teachers and dental technicians. My twin brother Merlin is an artist.”
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“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
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“When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.”
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“I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.”
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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
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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.”
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“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
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“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”
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“I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.”
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“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.”
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“It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.”
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“Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.”
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“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”
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“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
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“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”
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“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
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“If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
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“Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don't look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.”
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“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
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“Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
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“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”
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“Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.”
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“The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”
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“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
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“Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.”
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“I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.”
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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
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“Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.”
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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
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“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
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“Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.”
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“When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work.”
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“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
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“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.”
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“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.”
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“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”
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“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
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“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
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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.”
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“Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.”
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“I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.”
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“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
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“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”
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“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
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“If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”
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“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”
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“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”
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“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
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“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
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“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
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“Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience.”
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“I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”
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“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
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“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
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“To create a work of art is to create the world.”
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“It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.”
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“I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.”
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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
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“Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.”
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“It doesn't matter who you are - if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that's really good for the nation.”
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“There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
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“There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”
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“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”
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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
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“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.”
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“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
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“You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.”
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“My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'”
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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
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“If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.”
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“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
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“Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.”
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“We say that we will work with anybody and form a coalition with anybody that has revolution on their mind.”
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“I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.”
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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
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“Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.”
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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
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“My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.”
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“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.”
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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
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“Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”
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“A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.”
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“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
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“Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”
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“Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.”
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“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
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“Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.”
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“I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.”
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“Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.”
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“Where there is no work, there is no dignity.”
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“See, winners embrace hard work.”
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“Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.”
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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
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“A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.”
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“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
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“A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don't really work them.”
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“Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
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“Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.”
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“I work hard every day to try to help my team. I try to have fun too - because football is still fun - and scoring goals, breaking records, that's what drives me.”
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“When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.”
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“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
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“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
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“In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.”
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“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.”
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“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
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“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
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“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”
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“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
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“You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
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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.”
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“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
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“The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.”
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“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”
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“Some of our finest work comes through service to others.”
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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”
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“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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“I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.”
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“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”
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“Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.”
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“The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.”
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
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“At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.”
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“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”
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“I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.”
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“I work from the inside out.”
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“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”
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“You reach a point where you don't work for money.”
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“Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.”
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“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.”
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“Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.”
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“I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.”
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“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
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“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”
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“I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.”
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“Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.”
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
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“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”
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“It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.”
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“I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”