"We work to become, not to acquire."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
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"Men have become the tools of their tools."
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"Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget."
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"Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness."
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"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."
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"Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place."
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"It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives."
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"You must be prepared to work always without applause."
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"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
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"Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law of nature which forced man to work, but the effect of a curse."
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"Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it."
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"When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound."
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"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."
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"I mean, it’s true, nobody talks about them, but when you bring it up, the idea that you have to rent yourself to somebody and follow their orders, and that they own and you work there, and you built it but you don’t own it, that’s a highly unnatural notion. You don’t have to study any complicated theories to see that this is an attack on human dignity."
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"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection."
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"When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles."
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
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