Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.
It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to...
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Ann Patchett
I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
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Joseph Conrad
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Aristotle
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
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Anne Frank
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
More Quotes By Simon Sinek
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
