"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Work, People, Sea, Want

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Work, God, Nothing

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Work, Jokes

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Work, Liberty, Practice

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Work, Despair

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Work, People, Care, Media

"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Work, Effort, Results

"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Work, Boss, Success, Retirement, Life

"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Work, Theory, Values, Meaning

"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Work, Man, Home, Machine

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

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"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

Philosophy

"Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction."

Relationship

"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."

Mindfulness

"Flowers are so inconsistent!"

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"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

"Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction."

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."

"Flowers are so inconsistent!"

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."