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Don't fix something that works.
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Nobody likes hard work like the person who pays for it.
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A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.
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Some people are like a callus, they always show up after the work is done.
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It is better to have one man working with you than three working for you.
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Nothing seems to discourage hard work so much as having a job.
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If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
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I don't believe in dying, It's been done. I am working on a new exit.
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We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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Team work is essential; it gives them someone else to shoot on.
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Ham and eggs...A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.
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People who don't work don't make mistakes.
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Art is a thoughtful workmanship.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
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The number of employees in a company grows with no relation to the amount of work.
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A genius is a talented person who does his homework.
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There seems to be more paperwork than trees.
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Hire yourself out to work which is beneath you rather than become dependent on others.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Everything works out for the best, even the worst intentions.
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If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics.
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Some people will do anything for money - even work.
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When a machine is working well, why pull it apart?
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We continue to overlook the fact that work has become a leisure activity.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
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When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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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?
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Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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I'm working myself to death.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Work, look for peace and calm in work; you will find it nowhere else.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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Work alone is noble.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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