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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
"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
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
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Personal Development
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"It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others."
Behavior
"Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees."
Act
"An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager."
Management
"An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind."
Policy
"You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it."
Reward
"You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves."
People
"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."
Time
"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."
Building
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
Money
"Take your work seriously and yourself lightly."
Work
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