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• Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

  Salvador Bernal

  Mean, Self, Denial

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• Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Sucker

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• I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Fun, New Experiences, Play

  "The man who made ''Mario'' super". Interview with Geoff Keighley, ew.com. May 8, 2007.

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• Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend."

  Tim Ferriss

  Weekend, Important, Done

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• In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

  Robert Wyatt

  Long, Musician, Groups

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• A day without work is a day without food.

  Baizhang Huaihai

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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  James Woods

  People, Steps, Film

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• There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.

  Alex Steffen

  Home, Decision, Environmental

  "On green building, urban development, and reviving rural America". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. September 1, 2005.

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Connections, Impossible, Midst

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

  Conrad Aiken

  Views, Firsts, Emotion

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• We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Play, Worship, Caught

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• An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Expression, Organization, Rooms

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.86, Penguin

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• SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Issues, Stories, Magazines

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

  Blaise Pascal

  Distance, Math, Views

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• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Body, Plant, Grass

  "Grass" l. 1 (1918)

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  School, College, People

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• When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

  Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

  Father, Real, Overcoming

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• The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

  George Will

  Want

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• Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Knowing, Tasks, Satisfaction

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Critics

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

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• Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

  Robert Grudin

  Rewards, Bread, Making Money

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I don't need the money, I don't work.

  James Spader

  Money, Needs, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

  Stan Lee

  Play, People, Like You

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