"All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew."
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"If a job's worth doing, it's too hard."
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"I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task."
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"In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon."
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"The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive."
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"No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him."
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"Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening."
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"For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day."
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"This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career."
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"Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted."
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"Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead."
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"While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation."
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"The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth."
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"The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here."
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"Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die)."
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"Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately."
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"The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real."
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"What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same."
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"No work begun shall ever pause for death."
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