Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...

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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people—we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

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Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

—Elbert Hubbard

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

—Edgar Bergen

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

—Diane Ackerman

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