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“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
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“Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”
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“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“It couldn’t last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.”
― Gone
― Gone
“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
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“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― Everything They Had: Sports Writing
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― Everything They Had: Sports Writing
“...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.”
― Free Fall in Crimson
― Free Fall in Crimson
“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.”
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“Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and lasting success surround yourself with people of integrity.”
― Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
― Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”
― The Portable Frederick Douglass
― The Portable Frederick Douglass
“You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights.”
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“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency." - William S. Burroughs”
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“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.”
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“It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.”
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
― Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
“what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.”
― Introduzione alla filosofia matematica
― Introduzione alla filosofia matematica
“I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.”
“Why be careful?” Marnes asked.
Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.
“'Cause she'll damn well do it. Even if you don't really expect her to.”
― Wool Omnibus
“Why be careful?” Marnes asked.
Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.
“'Cause she'll damn well do it. Even if you don't really expect her to.”
― Wool Omnibus
“My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.”
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“Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!”
― Roderick Hudson
― Roderick Hudson
“You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.”
― The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
― The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
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