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- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
- The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.
- William Strong
- Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
- Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
- It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
- French management saying
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
- What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
- Victor Kiam
- Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.
- Frank W. Woolworth
- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel Burnham
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