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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry

The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

The workman still is greater than his work.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

They's making it worse, the labor movement got the mafia curse.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

Third box car, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine. Old worn out suit and shoes, I don't pay no union dues.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.