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That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.

That which hinders your task is your task.

The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

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.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

The computer is a moron.

the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.