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• I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

  Brian Wilson

  Guy, Genius, Hard

  Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks (2005). “Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece”, p.73, Omnibus Press

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Clever, Hate, Lazy

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.

  Rick Riordan

  Party, Done, Shows

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• Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Boredom, Disease

  David Ogilvy (1978). “Blood, Brains and Beer”

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• Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Winning, Tough Times, Done

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• The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

  Scott Adams

  Sacrifice, Want, Ability

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• I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

  John Bunyan

  Despair, Swallowing, Praying

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.441

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• Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Long, Special

  "Vishy Anand: 'I found Bobby Fischer surprisingly normal and calm'". Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their relationship would take a lot of hard work and dedication. But it had simply happened. No explanation. No cataclysmic event or earth-shattering revelation brought on by some external event. It had simply happened.

  Maya Banks

  Dedication, Doubt, Events

  Maya Banks (2013). “Forged in Steele”, Penguin

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• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, People, Photographer

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• As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Mother, Grateful, Sometimes

  "Why We Don’t Celebrate Mother’s Day in our Home" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  Kailash Kher

  Inspiration, Men, Keys

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• Spreading an idea is hard work.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Ideas, Hard

  "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

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• Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

  Gary Soto

  World, Sparrows, Enough

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• In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

  Michael Jackson

  Book, Mean, Water

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• Act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Dorothea Brande

  Inspirational, Positive, Failure

  Donald G. Carty, Dorothea Brande (2013). “How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success That Works”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

  Betty Smith

  Country, Teacher, Father

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Want, Moral

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• Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first.

  Lisa Jewell

  Pain, People, Wrong Friends

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• For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up -- this one is for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Giving Up, Ohio, America

  "Clinton wins key primaries, CNN projects; McCain clinches nod". March 5, 2008.

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• For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

  Ralph Ellison

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

  Sue Grafton

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

  Farrah Gray

  Business, Successful, College

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Jul 24, 2011

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• Modeling is a great job to be in. You travel the world. You stay in one of the most fantastic places in the world. It is not always as glamorous as it looks, it's a lot of hard work, too, but it's a lot of fun at the same time.

  Heidi Klum

  Positive, Jobs, Fun

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• Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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