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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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"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

"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

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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Personal Development

"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"
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Personal Development

"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."
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Personal Development

"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"
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Personal Development

"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."
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Personal Development

"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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Personal Development

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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Personal Development
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"True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist."
Business

"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
Education

"Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed."
Feelings

"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."
College

"I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls."
Time

"Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities."
People

"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."
Children

"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."
Animals

"A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would."
Work

"I met Cynthia when I was 12, proposed at 16, became engaged at 17, married her at 19 and we had a baby when I was 20. If extra work could pay for a lot of diapers, that was for me."
Work
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