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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

—Thomas A. Edison

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If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. … Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. … It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

—Noam Chomsky

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The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the “innocence of eye” that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new… This freshness of response is vital to the author’s talent… But there is another element to his character, fully as important to his success. It is adult, discriminating, temperate, and just. It is the side of the artisan, the workman, and the critic rather than the artist. It must work continually with and through the emotional and childlike side, or we have no work of art. If either element of the artist’s character gets too far out of hand the result will be bad work, or no work at all. The writer’s first task is to get these two elements of his nature into balance, to combine their aspects into one integrated character.

—Dorothea Brande in Becoming A Writer

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A painting that is well composed is half finished.

—Pierre Bonnard

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

—Don Marquis

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Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

—Mary Kay Ash

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

—Max Beerbohm

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Relationships take work. Hours and days and years of getting close to that person. That's real love, real intimacy.

—Karen Kingsbury in A Time to Embrace

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I gave him everything and it didn't work out. He didn't love me.

—Jaci Burton in Changing the Game

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Words of love, are works of love.

—William R. Alger

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Words of love, are works of love.

—William R. Alger

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If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

—Peter Ustinov

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We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

—E. F. Schumacher

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It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped.

—Unknown

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

—Novalis

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