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“All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.”

Jobs Work Five Week

Author:Elton John

“If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.”

Ifs Men Work Five Alive Fool Fifty

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.”

Thinking Want Years Stills Hard Bigs Work Five Five Years Think Big

Author:Chanel Iman

“And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.”

Ifs Thinking Made Work Morning Worry Five Doors Week Seven Made It Sweating Seven Days

Author:Paul Ryan

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”

Truth Funny Hours Work Five Theory Truth Is Nine Telling The Truth Epic Hunters Gonzo

Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.”

Funny Jobs Work Wealth Five Week Philosophical Add Insightful Life Lesson Motivational Work Funny Business Office Work Office Jobs

Author:H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.”

“The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.”

Ifs Life Littles Has Beens Age Science Work Five Hard Work Twenties Mathematics Math Mathematical Accomplishment Thirty Accomplished Mathematician Twenty Five

Author:Alfred Adler

“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel

“Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.”

Hard Age Jobs Values Work Interesting Creativity Five Loyalty Boundaries Nine Pushing Acceptable Value Systems Loyalty And Friendship

Author:Adam Clayton

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

Night Three Work Morning Five Week Ten Clothes Seasons Riches Clock Opera Every Night Idle Three Times Dine

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”

“A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.”

Lasts Work Five Minutes Invention Immortal Bores Five Minutes Inventor Gadgets Inventions And Inventors

Author:Francis Picabia