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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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

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

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

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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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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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

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