"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
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"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
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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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"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."
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"Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail."
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"People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator."
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"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."
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"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
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"There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work."
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"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
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"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
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"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
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"If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work."
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"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
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"When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
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"When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing."
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