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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work
By the work one knows the workman
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies
The beginning is the most important part of the work
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important
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