Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. ― Stephen King

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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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The conditions were terrible. The farmworkers were only earning about 70 cents an hour at that time - 90 cents was the highest wage that they were earning. They didn't have toilets in the fields; they didn't have cold drinking water. They didn't have rest periods. People worked from sunup to sundown. It was really atrocious. - Dolores Huerta

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People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work ― Thomas Edison

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

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Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. — Robert Half

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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou

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The harder I work the more I live. — George Bernard Shaw

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