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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

—J. M. Barrie

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By the work one knows the workmen.

—John Ruskin

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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

—John Ruskin

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

—Unknown

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The more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber

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I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

—Ed Begley Jr.

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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

—C. Wright Mills

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Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

—Marshall McLuhan

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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

—Betty Bender

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You never know how something will work out until you go for it.

—Shana Norris in The Boyfriend Thief

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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

—Dave Barry

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All work is the avoidance of harder work.

—James Richardson in Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

—Vince Lombardi

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I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

—Marc Chagall

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