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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Speaking about work isn't working."

"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."

"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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"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."

"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."

"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."

"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."
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