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“You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.”

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Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.”

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Book:Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Source: Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”

“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.”

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Author:James Cash Penney

“Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.”

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Author:Charles Baxter

“I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.”

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

“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.”

“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.”

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Author:Bob Black

“The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.”

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Author:Stephen Brookfield

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“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.”