The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The
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Thomas McGuane
After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is
Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans out the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through
Alistair Cooke
Harry S. Truman
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability.
Benjamin Jowett
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Conrad
I don’t like work… but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself, not
Samuel Butler
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful