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Work Quotes
"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
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"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
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"There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
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"There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes."
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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn't happen."
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"And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!"
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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."
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"First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing."
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"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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"He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way."
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"The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else."
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"You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented."
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"If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate."
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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 job is the ultimate pyramid scheme."
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"I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words."
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"With or without money, the work must be done."
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"Give me a man who sings at his work."
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"When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, hard work is the way to get results."
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"Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your time? It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meantnothing."
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"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
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"Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff."
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"I have to go. Boss hasthis weird idea that I should actually work while he's payingme."
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"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques."
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"Professional' does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby."
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"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts."
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"Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work."
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"Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer, is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the magician with the fiddle-bow in his hand, who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him - why, certainly he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair - but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash also."
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