Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
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Stephen King
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space...
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Rose Wilder Lane
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
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Criss Jami
Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s already here and never leaves. And because that’s the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that’s not arriving.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
More Quotes By Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
