Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.

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We can only reach our goal amid bloodletting

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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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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I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou

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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.- Donald Trump

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I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

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