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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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"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
Family
"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
Truth
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
Emotional
"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
Energy
"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
Work
"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
Poetry
"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
Books
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
Family
"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
Family
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
Woman
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