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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
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Personal Development
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
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Personal Development
"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
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Personal Development
"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."
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Personal Development
"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
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Personal Development
"Speaking about work isn't working."
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Personal Development
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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Personal Development
"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
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"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
Colors
"My family gave me the best in education."
Education
"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
College
"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."
Science
"At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years."
Time
"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."
Business
"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
June
"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."
Work
"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
Business
"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
Class
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