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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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"One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War."
War

"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
Film

"I like high impact movies."
Movies

"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
Film

"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
Civilization

"Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs."
Character

"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell."
Love

"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
Experience

"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
Morality

"You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that."
Work
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