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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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Personal Development
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"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
Wisdom

"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical."
Life

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
Man

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."
Emotional

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman."
Fact

"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."
Life

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking."
Truth

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work."
Work

"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own."
People

"Nature provides exceptions to every rule."
Nature
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