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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job
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
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
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work
By the work one knows the workman
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies
The beginning is the most important part of the work
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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