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X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Silence
R A Dickson

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Cities and City Life
Michael Douglas

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Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.
Work
Peter F. Drucker

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Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.
Work
Peter F. Drucker

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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
Management
Peter F. Drucker

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Love
John Dryden

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
Learning
Rene Dubos

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My work is done why wait.
Famous Last Words
George Eastman

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Worry
Thomas A. Edison

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I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
Failure
Thomas A. Edison

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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Work
Thomas A. Edison

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
Thomas A. Edison

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity
Thomas A. Edison

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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Results
Thomas A. Edison

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There is no substitute for hard work.
Work, Hard
Thomas A. Edison

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How do I work? I grope.
Work
Albert Einstein

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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Praise
Albert Einstein

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Perfection
George Eliot

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common Sense
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Purpose
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun