"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
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"If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?"
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"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
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"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
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"Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things."
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"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
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"Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour."
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"Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal."
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"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
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"the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become"
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"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation."
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"The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God."
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"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
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"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."
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"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
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"I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his."
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"It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome."
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