"People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms."
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"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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"I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old."
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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
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"Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get."
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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
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"Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow."
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
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"Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work."
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"The harder I work the more I live."
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
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"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
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"Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime."
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"Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work."
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
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"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
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"It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar."
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"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."
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