"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."

Work, Genetics, Mind

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"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."

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

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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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."

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"Speaking about work isn't working."

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"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

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"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

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

Calvin Coolidge, American President

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."

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"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years."

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