Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
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- To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
- The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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