“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”
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“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
“Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.”
“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”
“It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.”
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
“If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.”
“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”
“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.”
“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
“You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.”
“The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”
“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”
“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”
“But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.”
“The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.”
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.”
“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”
“If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.”
“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”