Alan Ayckbourn Quotes, Work Quotes, Sleep Quotes

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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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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In work, do what you enjoy.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Running Quotes , Work Quotes

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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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

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The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

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