"The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense."
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"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it"
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"No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot."
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"Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify."
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"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."
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"We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace."
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"If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent."
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"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
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"There can be no joy in living without joy in work."
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"Laziness is the mother of all evils."
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"Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it"
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"Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours."
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"Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
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"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."
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"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases."
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"And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord."
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"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
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"One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!"
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"If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job."
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"I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise."
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