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«One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
cheerful, extremities, extremity, midday, out of place, playful, tranquil, under it, work at
«I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.»
«People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly»
«If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
re-creation, recreation, work at
«There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Empowerment,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
click, clicked, clicking, clicks, empowering, workers, work at
«I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.»
«Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
allowing, arbiter, arbiters, at loggerheads, conflicting, positions, work at
«The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
drudge, drudges, his mother, seventy, starve, work at
«I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Birth,
Humanity
| Keywords:
brotherhood, brothers, Burma, Call Me, Diego, investment, investments, jealous, mutuality, parentage, possessive, relentless, San, San Diego, sibling, siblings, sisterhood, sisters, stand firm, work at
«I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
brotherhood, mutuality, parentage, sibling, siblings, sisterhood, sisters, work at
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