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  If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living... Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Doors, Track

  "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

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• Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Gold

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• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

  Grandma Moses

  Life, Positive, Good Day

  "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.

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  The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Comedian, Relaxation

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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  Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

  Satchel Paige

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  Anna Pavlova

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas

  Marvin Hagler

  Funny, Sleep, Boxers

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• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Francis Asbury

  Religious, Jesus, Bishops

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231

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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Creativity, Greatness

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Program, Computer Science

  "First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

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• Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Respect

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

  Jerry West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Careers, Best Job

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• Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Simple, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from May 26, 2010

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Get Better, Self Improvement

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2012

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Ideas, Luck, Percent

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• Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiration

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• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Yoga, Inspiration

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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