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- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
- The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
- The Work of the Chariot
- Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- By the work one knows the workmen.
- Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
- You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
- Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
- The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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