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That's where these 115 hard work quotes come into play. They offer lots of encouraging words to give us a little motivation to get up and start doing. ... 82. “Plant your tiny seeds and keep ...
The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." ( Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.
Some sayings from sacred books also become proverbs, even if they were not obviously proverbs in the original passage of the sacred book. [324] For example, many quote "Be sure your sin will find you out" as a proverb from the Bible, but there is no evidence it was proverbial in its original usage (Numbers 32:23).
Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
"You didn't build that" is a phrase from a 2012 election campaign speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012, in Roanoke, Virginia.In the speech, Obama said: "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.
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Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster. The adage is named after Niklaus Wirth , a computer scientist who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software".
Byron Dixon, CEO of a small business, recalled that "when we start businesses, being skint in the early days is tough, and every day is a struggle". He notes, as an example, that "the biggest kids' footwear retailer in the UK is Clarks , and that is one of the only companies that we don't deal with now because, at the time, I couldn't afford to ...