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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.