Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. Steve Jobs

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Probably the most common change that people who want to succeed need to make is getting rid of the incorrect career choice they made when they were naive, ignorant high school and college age kids. John T. Reed

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What personal qualities are virtues in one career are vices in another. You need to identify your strengths and weaknesses and get to the career situation where your strengths are considered virtues. John T. Reed

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People who are afraid of losing their jobs and thereby, their income, are cowards. That's no way to live your life. John T. Reed

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The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. Steven Pressfield

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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into. Richard Feynman

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Work hard to find something that fascinates you. When you find it you will know your lifework. A man may be digging a ditch for someone else, or because he is forced to, or is stupid—such a man is "toolish"—but another working even harder may not be recognized as different by the bystanders—but he may be digging for treasure. So dig for treasure and when you find it you will know what to do. Richard Feynman

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It is wonderful, if you can find something you love to do in your youth which is big enough to sustain your interest through all your adult life. Because, whatever it is, if you do it well enough (and you will, if you truly love it) people will pay you to do what you want to do anyway. Richard Feynman

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Don't think of what "you want to be," but what you "want to do." Richard Feynman

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Perhaps the most underused question in job selection is, "Do I want to be more like the people I'll be working with?" Dan and Chip Heath

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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician. I should like to be, also, something of a man. Theodore Parker

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It's better to be in an expanding world and not quite in exactly the right field, than to be in a contracting world where peoples' worst behavior comes out. [In the latter,] your mind is grooved in defensive and rent-seeking types of ways. Eric Weinstein

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