Oprah Winfrey Quotes, Work Quotes, Passion Quotes

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

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A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

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Labor is God's education.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly beating us didn't affect me. There was a point where I felt like, Golly, you work so hard, you try so hard and the people say they want meaningful television and then Jerry Springer ends up beating you. It was disturbing.

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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

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