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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

– Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

– Vidal Sassoon

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

– Russell Baker

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

– Harry Golden

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

– Bette Davis, "The Lonely Life"(1962). Chapter Four.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

– Eric Hoffer

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

– Brian Sutton-Smith

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

– Robert Hutchins

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

– Vince Lombardi

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

– Phillip Lopate

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

– Robert Frost

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

– John Von Neumann

The secret of greatness is simple do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

– Wilfred A. Peterson

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

– Wilfred A. Peterson

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

– Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

– William John Bennett

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

– Jerome Seymour Bruner

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

– Maxine Hong Kingston

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

– David Joseph Schwartz

The thing we want eludes our grasp, Some other thing is given; sometimes Our wish is gained, and gifts unsought Are ours; these all are God?s own work.

– Hindu Poetess

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

– Michelangelo Buonarroti

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

– Thomas Calyle

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

– Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

– Edward M. Kennedy

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.

– Auguste Renoir

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