"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."

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"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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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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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

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"One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable."

Steven Magee, British Author

Work, Fatigue, Health, Society

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer

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"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."

Hector Elizondo, American Actor

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"Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."

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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."

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

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character."

"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."

"One can only wonder what the motivation is for Mauna Kea astronomers to subject their nighttime support staff to extremely long and fatiguing night shifts when they are easily avoidable."

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

"On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for."

"Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself."

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"I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing."

"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is."

"I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel."

"I was dictating to my mother when I was 5."

"I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer."

"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."

"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."

"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."