"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings."
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"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
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"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
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"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
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"Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could."
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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
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"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures."
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"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
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"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
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"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
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"If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to."
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night."
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"Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
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"Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end."
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"We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
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"He who moves not forward, goes backward."
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"Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead."
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"My life will be the best illustration of all my work."
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"Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable."
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
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