"It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been."
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"I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career."
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"A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work."
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"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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"The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker."
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"The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker."
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"Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may."
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"Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment."
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"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
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"I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner."
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"Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life."
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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
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"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."
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"Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare."
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"A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch."
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"Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more."
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"Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."
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"The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure."
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"Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose."
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"Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky."
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