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Pablo Picasso
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction
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Lev Tolstoy
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job
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Henry Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air your work does not need to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them
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Henry Thoreau
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure
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Jean Cocteau
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work
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Jean de La Fontaine
By the work one knows the workman
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Gustave Flaubert
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act
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Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies
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Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work
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Plato
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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