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The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is to not train them and keep them.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to unders...

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Adam SmithThe Theory of Moral Sentiments

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak ...

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Maya Angelou said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people wi...

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My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men...

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Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

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You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingele...

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...

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but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softene...

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Ernest HemingwayThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an ...

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Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wak...

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I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my ...

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You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you p...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'...

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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man...

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Josef PieperLeisure: The Basis Of Culture

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by '...

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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a...

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian tran...

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I wonder sometimes if I'm not, after all, a piece in some other player's game, following blindly his...

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No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

The harder I work, the luckier I get.