"Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.
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“Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.”
“To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.”
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
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“Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.”
“To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.”
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”