Maya Angelou Quotes, Work Quotes, Doe Quotes

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

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REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

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Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

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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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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

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Nothing worth having comes easy.

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