Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.

Idries Shah
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  2. Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison

  4. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson

  5. The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now! ' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies. - Criss Jami

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  1. In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

  2. One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

  3. Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

  4. SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

  5. It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

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