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• Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

  Linus Torvalds

  Understanding, Principles, Fundamentals

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• Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of the Author’s Life, and lock themselves into cork-lined rooms or droop around in bars in order to whine better. But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.

  Derek Sivers

  Nice, Book, Writing

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Writing, Self, Order

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• Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

  Robert Greene

  People, Done, World

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Done, Computer

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Done, Bits

  George Eliot, Carol A. Martin (2008). “Adam Bede”, p.293, Oxford University Press

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• My administration will be more supportive of the good works done here than any administration in the history of this country because I understand the power of faith, that faith can change lives.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Life Changing, Humor

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• I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and the behavioral aspects of getting the work done, are just as important as the installation and the photograph. So, for me, the relationship between the two is more about hybridism and the search for an ideal form that I'm never going to arrive at. The installation and the photograph are mere approximations of this ideal.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Sandy Skoglund, Smith College. Museum of Art (1998). “Sandy Skoglund: reality under siege : a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done.

  Dennis Miller

  Writing, White, House

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• I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

  Ernest Cline

  Done, World, World Of Warcraft

  "A Few Minutes With Fanboys Writer Ernest Cline On Ready Player One". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

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• If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you dont quite know what problems are worth working on.

  Richard Hamming

  Years, Doors, Office

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• The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

  John Flavel

  Jesus, Heart, Done

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.134, Hartland Publications

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• The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1619, Delphi Classics

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• In all cases where work is produced by heat, a quantity of heat proportional to the work done is expended; and inversely, by the expenditure of a like quantity of work, the same amount of heat may be produced.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Done, May, Heat

  "On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat Itself Which Are Deducible Therefrom" (1851)

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• The beautiful result often astonishes us when our mind becomes oblivious to the work done with our heart.

  Anuj

  Beautiful, Heart, Mind

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• Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Work, Loss

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• The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Organization, People

  Source: ngenworks.com

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• If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!

  Cassandra Clare

  Fans, Done, May

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Character, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.

  George Carlin

  Class, Skills, People

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

  John Kinsella

  People, Done, Impossible

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.

  Cate Marvin

  Writing, Player, June

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, People, Done

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

  Hudson Taylor

  Eye, Missionary, Done

  Mrs. Howard Taylor, James Hudson Taylor (1893). “The Story of the China Inland Mission”

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