"If I work hard and am rewarded, then I haven't really gained anything. It has been a trade: I've put in, and I've gotten back. Only if I am rewarded without having done anything have I actually come out ahead. The best way to gain the most is to do nothing."

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Source : "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

John S. Hall

#Hard Work Quotes #Done Quotes #Way Quotes

“Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them.”
“It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.”
“Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.”
“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”

Source : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.
“Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.”
“Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the people came into it he was, of course, a different man. Everything had changed then and he was no longer the virgin, with the virgin's right to insist upon platonic love. Life, in time, takes every maidenhead, even if it has to dry it up; it does not matter how the owner wants to keep it. Up to then he had been the young idealist. But he could not stay there. Not after the other people entered into it.”
“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”

Source : Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press
“When thereâ€™s an elephant in the room introduce him.”

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