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• It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.

  Stephen Leacock

  Real, Trouble, Made

  Stephen Leacock (2004). “On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944”, p.235, Dundurn

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• To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.

  Robert Orben

  Stress, Excitement, More Time

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• The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

  Joseph Jacobs

  Successful, Men, Self

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• Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Believe, Expected, Effects

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.70, Random House

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• If you want to sell 'em fish, sell 'em big fish. That's the secret to success.

  Jack Solomons

  Business, Secret, Big Fish

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• What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

  Antoine-Augustin Preault

  Success, Order, Mediocrity

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• I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Baby, Book, Writing

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• To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

  Oscar Wilde

  Toil, Bitter, Masters

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.364, GENERAL PRESS

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• What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Missing, Want, Young

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• Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

  Roscoe Pound

  Kings, Government, Years

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• I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Years, Meditating

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• People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Waiting, Waste

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• It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

  Blaine Nye

  Winning, Gambling, Blame

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• If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

  George Carlin

  Pay, Terrific, Ifs

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• Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decisions You Make, Self, Definitions

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• It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Problem, More Money

  Song: Mo Money Mo Problems, Album: Life After Death

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• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Thinking, Mind

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• I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

  George Sand

  Passion, Tasks, Found

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• If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

  John Tukey

  Meaningful, Keys, Might

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• The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Heart, Hands, Products

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• I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.

  Mark Polish

  Thinking, World, Littles

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• Realize that you earn income by providing value - not time - so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.

  Steve Pavlina

  Time, Income, Way

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Stars, Men

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• Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Doe, Pace

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

  Andre Weil

  Time, Math, Names

  Andre Weil (2012). “The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician”, p.91, Birkhäuser

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