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The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to distinguish between what is really worthy of his efforts and what is not...

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.

The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

The more you think, the more time you have.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years before.... They were earnest and capable; ready to undertake anything that was worth doing. My dreamy, indolent nature was shamed into activity among them. They gave me a larger, firmer ideal of womanhood.

The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

The only way round is through.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.