"Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive."
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"Work is the province of cattle."
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"That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure."
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"Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind."
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"When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness."
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"Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much."
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"Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance."
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"The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train."
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"I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you."
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"Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it."
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"Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered."
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"He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends."
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"Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller."
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"It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds."
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"I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates."
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"No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work."
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"A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations."
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"We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism."
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