"Set up a life you don't need to escape from."
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"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear."
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"You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed."
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"The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object."
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"To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential."
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"My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on."
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"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."
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"If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler."
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
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"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet."
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"You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy."
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"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day."
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"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it."
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"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics"
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"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
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"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."
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"Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims."
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"Never trouble another for what you can do yourself"
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"The only way round is through."
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