Agatha Christie Quotes, Work Quotes, Writing Quotes

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

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A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

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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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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Work Quotes , Writing Quotes

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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I am always for the man who wishes to work.

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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

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