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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
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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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
"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."
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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
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Self-Education
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
Power
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Sympathy
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
Corruption
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
Work
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
Nature
"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
Beginning
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
Choice
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