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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

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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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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

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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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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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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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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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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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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

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the reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become

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The Way of the Sage is to act but not to compete.

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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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