Work Habits Quotes - Page 2

• Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

  John Updike

  Writing, Trying, Busy

  "John Updike on Passion", www.achievement.org.

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• I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

  Charlie Munger

  Nice, Hate, College

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• It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

  Zoë Heller

  Greatness, Thinking, Keys

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