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Quotes 41 till 60 of 1709.

  • Carl Sandburg Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Some of our finest work comes through service to others.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • St. John of the Cross Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Richard Bach The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Stephane Mallarme The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
    Stephane Mallarme
    French poet (1842 - 1898)
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  • Harold S. Geneen The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ezra Pound There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Voltaire Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Voltaire Work is often the father of pleasure.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt
    My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Barbara Sher ''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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