| "If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted." Sir Francis Bacon |
| "The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it." Paul Graham |
| "It is quality rather than quantity that matters." Seneca |
| "If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." John Cleese |
| "The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job." Hugh MacLeod |
| "Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable." George Washington Carver |
| "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither." Alan Cohen |
| "The greatest weariness comes from work not done." Eric Hoffer |
| "Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face." Manoj Arora |
| "I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain." Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
| "Anything is better than stagnation." Arthur Conan Doyle |
| "The Artist always has the masters in his eyes." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose." Leonardo da Vinci |
| "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." Newt Gingrich |
| "Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it." Madeleine L'Engle |
| "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." Steve Jobs |
| "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Émile Zola |
| "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else." J.M. Barrie |
| "Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work." Gustave Flaubert |
| "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Charles Swindoll |
| "Growth and profit are a product of how people work together." Ricardo Semler |
| "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." Fernando Flores |
| "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance." Alex Rodriguez |
| "No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence." William Glasser |
| "Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it." Julie Andrews |
| "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." Fernando Flores |
| "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery." Maxim Gorky |
| "When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." Theodore Roosevelt |
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