“Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.”
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“To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.”
“Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.”
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.”
“Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.”
“All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.”
“We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.”
“I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.”
“I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.”
“Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.”
“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”
“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”
“If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.”
“A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.”
“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”
“Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.”
“At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.”
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”
“We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
“You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.”
“I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.”
“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.”
“In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.”