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Do Things When You Should Do Them

?Hard work is an accumulation of easy things you didn?t do when you should have.? Cuba City [Wis.] News-Herald

Edison on Fun Work

?I never did a day?s work in my life ? it was all fun.? Thomas Edison

Work as a Thrill and a Joy

?Hard work is a thrill and a joy when you are in the will of God.? Robert A. Cook

Dr. Seuss on Writing Hard

?Writing books for children is hard work, a lot harder than most people realize. And it never gets easier. The most important thing about me is that I work slavishly ? write, rewrite, reject and polish incessantly. I know my stuff all looks like it was rattled off in 23 seconds, but every word and every sentence is a struggle.? Theodore Seuss Geisel PhD. (better known as Dr. Seuss)

Brain Stops When You Get Into The Office

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." --Robert Frost

Using Work to Get People Done

"The kingdom leader doesn't use people to get work done, he uses work to get people done." (David Schroeder, president of Nyack College)

The Most Profound Basic of All

?The most profound basic of all is simple hard work.? (Pat Riley, one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time, in The Winner Within, by Pat Riley, G.P. Putnam?s Sons, New York, 1993 p. 86)

The Surest Way to Be Miserable

"?The surest way to be miserable,? said George Bernard Shaw, ?is to have the leisure to wonder whether or not you are happy.? We do not usually discover happiness in the pursuit of it. Most often it is a by-product, coming to us as we are in the midst of giving ourselves to another. Jesus said in several contexts and in several ways that we find ourselves by losing ourselves." (The Friendship Factor, by Alan Loy McGinnis, Augsburg Publishing House, 1979, p. 25)

When I Run, I Feel His Pleasure

In the movie "Chariots of Fire," based on the life of Olympic runner Eric Liddell, he said, ?I believe God made me for a purpose....and when I run, I feel His pleasure.? I think Liddell understood something that we often miss - that if we're following God, everything we do is sacred, not just the "spiritual" things. Do you feel God's pleasure in what you do?

Joan of Arc and Getting Out of Bed

"If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed." ~E. Jean Carroll

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