"Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
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"Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome."
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"One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days."
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"I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess."
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"It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way."
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"They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes."
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"My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers."
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"I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams."
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"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."
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"I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed."
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"In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse."
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"We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work."
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"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't."
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"The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain."
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"Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest."
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"How is it that you live, and what is it you do?"
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"Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement put them to work today."
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"...great feeling of enthusiasm..this human component began to fade away, leaving only that supernatural enthusisam which must always be at the root of our perseverance."
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"Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness."
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"To work is to live without dying."
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