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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

“The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.”

Firsts Lasts Work Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:Jackson Browne

“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Whole Lasts Order Three Social Work Economic Century Waste Economics Productions Envy Confusion Consumption Cages Trash Avarice Squirrels Social Systems

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Lasts Work Philosophical Helping Others Volunteer Volunteerism

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.”

Years Motivational Lasts Motivation Work Economy Creative Imagine Ought Fifty Teamwork Imagine That Creative Work

Author:Stephen Leacock

“For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.”

Age Lasts Work Thirds Exciting Remains Working It Satisfying

Author:Doris Lessing

“Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”

Mind Lasts Work Ambition Noble Nobility My Ambition Infirmity

Author:James M. Barrie

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

Lasts Work Failure Ambition Refuge My Ambition

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.”

Want Lasts Work Cooking Lazy Working It Load

Author:Prince William

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

Knows Writing Done Lasts Work Great Things Work Done

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“A work of real merit finds favor at last.”

Real Lasts Work Appreciation Favors Merit

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

Firsts Book Funny Lasts Reading Work Composing

Author:T. S. Eliot

“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

“Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.”

Life Has Beens Lasts Night Work Expectations Constant Preparation Injured Preparation For Death

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours.”

Firsts Lasts Hours Differences Work Half

Author:Kemmons Wilson

“If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but the last half. He helps those who help themselves.”

Ifs Believe God Helping Lasts Belief Work Half Lord If You Believe Belief In Self

Author:Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis