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| Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. |
| by Robert Benchley |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. |
| by Oscar Wilde |
| The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. |
| by Russell Baker |
| All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. |
| by Calvin Coolidge |
| Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. |
| by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Rough work, iconoclasm, - but the only way to get at truth. |
| by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
| For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art. |
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green |
| by Thomas Carlyle |
| I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. |
| by Thomas A. Edison |
| Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| If a man is happy in his work exerting himself to the full extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it I'd say he's a success. |
| by William Romain |
| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. |
| by John William Ward |
| The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions. |
| by Jane Dunlop |
| If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. |
| by Albert Einstein |
| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. |
| by Robert F. Kennedy |
| The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. |
| by Lewis Mumford |
| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. |
| by Seneca |
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