981 private quotes tagged work

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison

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“Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” — Ann Landers

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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison

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“Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.” — Kemmons Wilson

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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.” — J. Paul Getty

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“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” — Rumi

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“Find a job you love and you'll never have to work again.”

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“The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.” — Lao Tzu

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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” — William Shakespeare

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“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” — Henry Ford

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“Work Is the Signal, Email Is the Noise”

Source:http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/next-big-thing-miss...

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“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu

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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.” — Mark Twain

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“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” — Voltaire

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“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” — Ann Landers

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“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” — Andrew Carnegie

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