Quotes 701 till 720 of 1709.
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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
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It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986) -
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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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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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
― Henry Ward Beecher
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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