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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
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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