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1dc119d
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It couldn't last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
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the-fayz
work-ethic
productivity
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Michael Grant |
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88fec87
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What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
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inspirational
actions
deeds
work-ethic
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Jason Fried |
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2d5996f
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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misattributed-to-jim-collins
inspirational
work-ethic
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Voltaire |
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d228cbf
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...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.
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work-ethic
thoroughness
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John D. MacDonald |
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643bfab
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but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.
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inspiration
motivation
work-ethic
lazy
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David Sedaris |
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41cd486
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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
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work
will-to-work
work-ethic
self-hatred
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Ernest Hemingway |
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dc9d254
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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occupation
situation
lifestyle
cause-and-effect
condition
work-ethic
circumstances
job
trade
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Frederick Douglass |
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4df68cf
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No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth.
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work-ethic
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Paulo Coelho |
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5c6dedf
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I think certain types of processes don't allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform--or perhaps distort--yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.
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work-ethic
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Haruki Murakami |
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f340a18
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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 wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
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reality
work-ethic
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Henry James |
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c04505d
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I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must stubbornly walk into that room, regardless, and you must hold your head high. You made it; you get to put it out there. Never apologize for it, never explain it away, never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time that you were given. You were invited, and you showed up, and you simply cannot do more that that. They might throw you out - but then again, they might not. They probably won't throw you out, actually. The ballroom is often more welcoming and supportive than you could ever imagine. Somebody might even think you're brilliant and marvelous. You might end up dancing with royalty. Or you might just end up having to dance alone in the corner of the castle with your big, ungainly red foam claws waving in the empty air. that's fine, too. Sometimes it's like that. What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because - please believe me - we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.
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individuality
motivation
inspirational
support
hard-work
work-ethic
pride
creativity
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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93db366
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Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened land! Why don't you go whole hog? Get him a brief case and make him carry it wherever he goes - make him feel shame if he doesn't have it.
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man
personality
human
god
nudity
taboo-breaking
taboos
martian
tribe
grace
work-ethic
psychotic
naked
society
innocence
mars
shame
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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f33982b
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"If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)"
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the-good-earth
silver
work-ethic
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Pearl S. Buck |
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4f9dff9
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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work-ethic
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Tahir Shah |
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4aaa705
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....stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.
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friendship
target
work-ethic
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Jodee Blanco |
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587a6f1
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Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.
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life-and-living-life-lessons
work-ethic
laziness
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Tahir Shah |
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dac0575
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if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.
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perseverance
work-ethic
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Robert A. Caro |
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4d704c4
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. 'Inspiration is for amateurs,' the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. 'The rest of us just show up and get to work.
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work
work-ethic
productivity
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Oliver Burkeman |
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d7db224
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Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.
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work-ethic
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Og Mandino |
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67dcdf4
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He was a typical workaholic, driven to succeed and willing to put in the hours to do so. It didn't leave much time for a social life. (Greg)
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this-was-me
work-ethic
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Lynsay Sands |
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9361267
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A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.
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marriage
work-ethic
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Richard Llewellyn |
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283fd2c
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The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
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work-ethic
thoroughness
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Flannery O'Connor |
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5f876ad
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We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.
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money
business-to-business
buying-decision
buying-decision-quote
earn-the-right
integrity
influence-quotes
salesmanship
selling-skills
selling-tips
sales-effectiveness
selling
influence
empathy
trust
honesty
business-quotes
buying
customers
salespeople
business-success
work-ethic
shopping
business-advice
humility
sales
sales-training
negotiation
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Chris Murray |
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c259636
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Hoe machtig onze technologie en hoe complex onze ondernemingen ook mogen zijn, het opmerkelijkste kenmerk van onze moderne arbeid is uiteindelijk misschien wel iets wat in onszelf zit, een aspect van onze mentaliteit: de wijdverbreide overtuiging dat ons werk ons gelukkig moet maken.
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work
spiritualityity
work-ethic
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Alain de Botton |
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5fe83bc
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Onszelf beschouwen als het middelpunt van het heelal, de huidige tijd als het hoogtepunt van de geschiedenis en onze geplande vergaderingen als gebeurtenissen van het grootst mogelijke gewicht, voorbijgaan aan de lessen die begraafplaatsen ons leren, slechts nu en dan een boek lezen, de druk van deadlines voelen, tegen collega's snauwen, ons door conferentieroosters heen werken met vermeldingen als:'11.00 uur tot 11.15 uur: koffiepauze', ons inhalig en zonder scrupules gedragen en ten slotte opbranden in de strijd - misschien is dit alles uiteindelijk de wijsheid die ons werk ons te bieden heeft.
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work
work-ethic
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Alain de Botton |
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eed1464
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Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening. We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty. The greatest work and art comes from wrestling with the void, facing it instead of scrambling to make it go away. The question is, when faced with your particular challenge, do you seek the respite of talk or do you face the struggle head-on?
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work-ethic
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Ryan Holiday |
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c77b596
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"Any dictatorship takes a psychological toll on its subjects. If you are treated as an untrustworthy person-a potential slacker, drug addict, or thief-you may begin to feel less trust worthy yourself. If you are constantly reminded of your lowly position in the social hierarchy, whether by individual managers or by a plethora of impersonal rules, you begin to accept that unfortunate status. To draw for a moment from an entirely different corner of my life, that part of me still attached to the biological sciences, there is ample evidence that animals-rats and monkeys, for example-that are forced into a subordinate status within their social systems adapt their brain chemistry accordingly, becoming "depressed" in humanlike ways. Their behavior is anxious and withdrawn; the level of serotonin (the neurotransmitter boosted by some antidepressants) declines in their brains. And-what is especially relevant here-they avoid fighting even in self-defense. Humans are, of course, vastly more complicated; even in situations of extreme subordination, we can pump up our self-esteem with thoughts of our families, our religion, our hopes for the future. But as much as any other social animal, and more so than many, we depend for our self-image on the humans immediately around us-to the point of altering our perceptions of the world so as to fit in with theirs. My guess is that the indignities imposed on so many low-wage workers - the drug tests, the constant surveillance, being "reamed out" by managers - are part of what keeps wages low. If you're made to feel unworthy enough, you may come to think that what you're paid is what you are actually worth. It is hard to imagine any other function for workplace authoritarianism. Managers may truly believe that, without their unremitting efforts, all work would quickly grind to a halt. That is not my impression. While I encountered some cynics and plenty of people who had learned to budget their energy, I never met an actual slacker or, for that matter, a drug addict or thief. On the contrary, I was amazed and sometimes saddened by the pride people took in jobs that rewarded them so meagerly, either in wages or in recognition. Often, in fact, these people experienced management as an obstacle to getting the job done as it should be done."
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getting-by
labor-quotes
living-wage
minimum-wage
undercover
work-quotes
work-ethic
journalism
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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f71dbe1
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Find canvases for other people to paint on. Clear the path for the people above you and you will eventually create a path for yourself. Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room - until you change that with results.
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work-ethic
humility
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Ryan Holiday |
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d0de57a
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There are some men who will always prefer to deal with another man, any man, rather than a woman ... I can see him struggling to place me: I'm not married to him, clearly I'm not his mother, I didn't go to school with his sister and I'm sure as hell not going to go to bed with him. So what, he must be asking himself as he chews on his pigeon, is this girl doing here? What is she for?
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work-ethic
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Allison Pearson |
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19785d1
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Reason Develops Passion, Passion Creates Motivation, Motivation is the driving force behind all actions = GREAT RESULTS.
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passion
inspirational-quotes
motivation
results
motivational-quote
work-ethic
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Ray Mancini |
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b2f6c11
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Is it ten thousand hours or twenty thousand hours to mastery? The answer is that it doesn't matter. There is no end zone. To think of a number is to live in a conditional future. We're simply talking about a lot of hours - that to get where we want to go isn't about brilliance, but continual effort. It means it's all within reach - for all of us, provided we have the constitution and humbleness to be patient and the fortitude to put in the work.
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work-ethic
patience
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Ryan Holiday |
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c5f343b
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"It's not with ideas, my dear Degas, that one makes verse. It's with words." - the poet Mallarme to Degas"
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work-ethic
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Ryan Holiday |
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72458a3
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The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly with a comparable convergence in religiosity. Europeans not only work less; they also pray less - and believe less.
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faith-and-culture
work-ethic
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Niall Ferguson |