“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Category: work
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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
— Peter Marshall
Author: Peter Marshall
Category: work
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The biggest job we have is to
“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
— Charles Kettering
Author: Charles Kettering
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A day of worry is more exhausting
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
— John Lubbock
Author: John Lubbock
Category: work
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Quality is decided by the depth at
“Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.”
— Theodor Adorno
Author: Theodor Adorno
Category: work
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Man is the animal that intends to
“Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.”
— Bill Vaughan
Author: Bill Vaughan
Category: work
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I guess what I learned the most
“I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.”
— Stephen Dorff
Author: Stephen Dorff
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Many people mistake our work for our
“Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”
— Mother Teresa
Author: Mother Teresa
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Being busy does not always mean real
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
— Thomas A. Edison
Author: Thomas A. Edison
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I stayed away from mathematics not so
“I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.”
— Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Young people are threatened… by the evil
“Young people are threatened… by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
— Pope John Paul II
Author: Pope John Paul II
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