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

The only difference between dreams and achievements is hard work.

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

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

The only way round is through.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

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

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.

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

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.