"The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le."
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"Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked"
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"Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it."
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"The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action."
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"I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big part of my makeup today, as any of my co-workers will tell you. And when life seemed unbearable, I learned to live in my imagination, and to step inside other people's skins- indispensable abilities for an actress."
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"I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time."
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"If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played."
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."
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"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."
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"I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show."
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"If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!"
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"The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it."
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"When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job."
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"We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people."
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"Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit."
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"Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it"
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"hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work."
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"I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose."
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"Work hard, have fun and make history."
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"The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back"
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