"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."

Work, Job, Trying, Will

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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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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Speaking about work isn't working."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Work, Development, Growth, Effort

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"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!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."

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"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try."

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"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

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"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there."

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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

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"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."

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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

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"One fails forward toward success."

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