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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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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The only way round is through.

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

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Work, work, work, is the main thing.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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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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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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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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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

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Labor is the true standard of value.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

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