Several Cents Worth of Common Sense

• “The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” -Arthur Miller-

• “You should not confuse your career with your life.” -Dave Barry-

• “Do not whine…Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.” -Joan Didion-

• “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

• “Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.” -Patrick Kennedy Toole-

• “If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you are a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” -Kurt Vonnegut-

• “In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not subversive.” -Bill Waterson-

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