George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Work
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
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The harder I work the more I live.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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