Our minds must have relaxation: rested, they will rise up better and keener. Just as we must not force fertile fields (for uninterrupted production will quickly exhaust them), so continual labor will break the power of our minds. They will recover their strength, however, after they have had a little freedom and relaxation.
Seneca
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Degeneres
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What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
Sun Tzu
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In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
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First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first one is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde
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I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
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