George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Retirement Quotes, Work Quotes

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.

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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

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

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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 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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Practice non-action. Work without doing.

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

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

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

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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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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

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

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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