"I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working."
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"What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art."
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"In books, or work, or healthful play."
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"Joyful is the accumulation of good work."
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"As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working."
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"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'"
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"At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.""
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"Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living."
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"Let every man practice the art that he knows best."
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"Work makes a callus against grief."
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"Nothing makes a man so selfish as work."
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"If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned."
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"It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience."
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"A good solid bit of work lasts."
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"There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot."
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"I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it."
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"I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job."
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"Good workmen are seldom rich."
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"... it is the work and not the reward that is precious."
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"I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion."
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