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• I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Self, Years, Two

  "And the Mountains Echoed". Book by Khaled Hosseini, May 21, 2013.

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• When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

  Andy Granatelli

  Success, Work, World

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• You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Life, Living Once, You Only Live Once

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• Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

  Dave Winfield

  Baseball, Swings, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

  Wil Haygood

  Writing, Good Writers

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• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  Dean Kamen

  Life, Change, Work

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• It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

  Janis Joplin

  Hard, Worth It

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• Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

  Shelby Steele

  Success, Struggle, Hard Work

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• The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Opposites, Play, Design

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• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Years, Law, Done

  Life Thoughts (1858)

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• My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Dad, Father

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• I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Errors, Evil

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• The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Responsibility, Artist

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• He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.

  Gary Paulsen

  Sorry, Dark, Long

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Writing, Thinking

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• That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Brain, Would Be

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• If it works, it's obsolete.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Hard Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Acceptance, Bigger

  Iyanla Vanzant (2013). “Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

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• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Color, Being Different

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• Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

  Lady Gaga

  Hard Work, Heart, Mean

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• Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

  Zakk Wylde

  Life, Thinking, Bridges

  FaceBook post by Zakk Wylde from Mar 24, 2012

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• Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

  Warren Buffett

  Pages, Interest, Compounds

  "How To Use The Reading Habits of Billionaires To Radically Improve Your Intelligence and Success" by Elle Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Princess, Crowns

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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