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| A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. |
| Fred Allen |
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| A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. |
| Albert Camus |
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| A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. |
| W. H. Auden |
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| Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. |
| William Cowper |
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| Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. |
| John Burroughs |
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| But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. |
| Henry Ford |
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| Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. |
| Walt Disney |
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| Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before unknown men |
| Bible |
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| Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him. |
| Samuel Butler |
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| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
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| For me, the work is an absolute necessity. I cannot put it off; I don't care for anything else; that is to say, the pleasure in something else ceases at once, and I become melancholy when I cannot go on with my work. I feel then as the weaver does wh |
| Vincent van Gogh |
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| Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. |
| Thomas Alva Edison |
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| Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? |
| Jean Paul Getty |
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| Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. |
| Jean Renoir |
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| Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance |
| Samuel Johnson |
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