"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour, Lebanese Author

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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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"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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"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."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Speaking about work isn't working."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Action, Procrastination, Efficiency

"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."

Henry Miller, American Author

Work, Communication

"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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Work, Act, Creation, Eyes

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Calvin Coolidge, American President

Work, Development, Growth, Effort

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

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"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

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"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."

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"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

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"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

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"Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema."

"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."

"The American public does not know poets exist."

"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."

"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."