 | "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
- Anatole France
, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. |
| "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
- Ann Landers
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| "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
- Aristotle
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| "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
- Aristotle
. |
| "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell
, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5. |
| "It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
- Bette Davis
, The Lonely Life, 1962. |
| "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."
- David McCullough
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| "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose ?' "
- Don Marquis
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| "A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world."
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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| "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance ?"
- Edgar Bergen
, (Charlie McCarthy). |