Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

About Aristotle

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Law is mind without reason.

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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.

—Lawana Blackwell

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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

—Gautama Buddha

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I start a picture and I finish it.

—Jean-Michel Basquiat

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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility.

—Lewis Mumford

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Personally I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic.

—Barbara Ehrenreich

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