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“If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.”

Ifs Lasts Form Work Existence Collapse Incessantly

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.”

Want Hard Eye Faces Form Work Grace Toil Quench

Author:Walter Scott

“Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.”

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.”

Form Work My Favorite Recreation

Book:THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA

Source: THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA

“People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.”

People May Hard Form Work Hard Work Honor Leisure Pauses Naps Hammocks

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.”

Form Water Work Essentials Sustenance

Book:Personal History

Source: Personal History

“It has been said that work is the highest form of play.”

Has Beens Said Play Form Work Highest

Book:The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.”

Form Work Opinion Industry Ought Majority Branches Good Work Wages Workmen

Book:On Liberty: Mill's Works

Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works

“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”

Humans Wells Mean Form Work Human Beings Majority Workers Granted Pleasant Relief Discovering Surroundings Recreation Monotony

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Caesar's double-bed is warm As an unimportant clerk Writes i do not like my work On a pink official form.”

Writing Form Work Bed Warm Officials Unimportant Dissatisfaction Clerks

Author:W. H. Auden

“We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.”

Life Doe Art Age Jobs Form Next Process Work Pay Race Practice Habit Victory Creating Art Is Dues Quitting Posts Payment Lifelong Mortgage Compliance Creating Art

Author:Seth

“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”

“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”

May Care Form Difficult Work Chins Double Standard

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more

“Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.”

Ifs Knows Love Inspirational God Jobs Form Work Know How Gods Will Preparation Inspirational Love Preparing Preparedness

Author:Marianne Williamson

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

Form Father Work Depends Slavery Profession

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“Patience is also a form of action.”

Action Form Work Patience Excellence

Author:Auguste Rodin

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

People Inspiration Motivational Form Work Ability Power Future Acquire Our Society Lifelong Learning Shakers Movers And Shakers

Author:Confucius

“I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.”

Source: Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

“That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact it's more an art form than it is a science, and you have to continually work the problem, continually try.”

Trying Art Facts Problem Hands Form Work Intelligent

Author:Dick Cheney

“It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.”

Two Government Form Choices Leadership Work Leader Democracy Worst Sad Capitalism Communism Comedian Irony Ironic Fascism Marxism Governing Forms Of Government Two Choices

Author:Colin Quinn

“But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.”

Giving Helping Form Work Pleasure Creating Tasks Unexpected Offering Finishing Creating Something

Author:Paul Lester Wiener

“I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.”

Thinking Stills Form Artist Difficult Work Cases Alive Parting Chariots

Author:Kit Williams