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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
By the work one knows the workmen.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.