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When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you,

 

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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

 

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

 

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The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles

 

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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.



Pearl S. Buck:

 

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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.



Pearl S. Buck:

 

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Phyllis McGinley:

 

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The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

 

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

 

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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

 

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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.



Rudyard Kipling:

 

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.



Sam Donaldson :

 

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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for

 

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The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play.
[from "Through the Needle's Eye," 1916]

 

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I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

 

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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

 

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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

 

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

 

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Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

 

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I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.