"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness."
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"Handle your tools without mittens."
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"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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"Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best."
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"It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do."
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"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation."
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"I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada."
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"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."
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"Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew."
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"If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time."
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"Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do"
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"The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret."
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"The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace."
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"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
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"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
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"... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society."
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"Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity."
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