There are roads in the mountain of books, and diligence is the path.
Learning is like sailing against the current; if you don’t advance, you will retreat;
If the age is not cold, there is no way to know the pines and cypresses; if things are not difficult, there is no way to know the gentleman. ——"Xunzi·Dalue"
If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is. ——"Xunzi Encouraging Learning"
When you climb high and move, your arms are not lengthened, but the person who sees it is far away; when you call along the wind, the sound is not accelerated, but the person who hears it is louder. ——"Xunzi Encouraging Learning"
Learning is inevitable. ——"Xunzi Encouraging Learning"
If you persevere, the rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, the metal and stone can be carved. ——"Xunzi·Encouragement to Learning"
It is not as good as what I have learned in just a moment if I taste it and think about it all day long; if I taste it and look forward to it, it is not as good as climbing high to gain broad insights. ——"Xunzi Encouraging Learning"
If jade is not polished, it will not become a tool; if a person does not learn, he will not know. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"
Although there are fine dishes, if you don't eat them, you don't know their purpose; although there are great ways, if you don't learn them, you don't know their goodness. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"
Study, and then you will know your shortcomings; teach, and then you will know your difficulties. If you know your shortcomings, you can then reflect on yourself; if you know your difficulties, you can then improve yourself. Therefore, it is said: Teaching and learning are mutually reinforcing. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"
To build a country and the people, teaching comes first. ——"Book of Rites·Xue Ji"
It is not easy to say that one should learn and practice from time to time. ——"The Analects of Confucius·Xueer"
Scholars do not worry about the lack of talent, but the lack of ambition. ——Xu Qian of the Han Dynasty
If you can’t learn it, if you don’t know it, ask it. Even if you know it, you must let it go, and then you will know it. ——Han Han Ying
You can’t succeed if you don’t learn, and you don’t know if you don’t ask. ——Wang Chong, Han Dynasty
What is heard with the ears is not as good as what is seen with the eyes, and what is seen with the eyes is not as good as being practiced by the feet. ——Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty
King Wen was restrained and performed "The Book of Changes"; Zhongnieu wrote "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan was exiled and wrote "Li Sao"; Zuoqiu was blind and wrote "Guoyu"; Sun Tzu Bijiao, the art of war, Bu Wei's move to Shu, the biography of Lu Lan; Han Fei, who was imprisoned in the Qin Dynasty, wrote "Shuo Nan" and "Gu Ang"; the three hundred poems in "Poetry" are mostly the works of sages and sages in their anger. ——Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty
Read it a hundred times and you will see your righteousness. ——"Three Kingdoms·Book of Wei"
Living in the lonely Yangtze, every year there is a book on the bed. ——Lu Zhaolin, Tang Dynasty
It is the time for men to study at the third watch of the night and the fifth watch of the chicken. Black-haired people don't know how to study diligently early, and white-haired people regret studying late. ——Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty
Diligence leads to excellence in work, but playfulness leads to wastefulness. ——Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty
Strong learning and extensive reading are enough to understand the past and present. ——Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty
Read the old book a hundred times without getting tired of it. If you read it carefully and think deeply, you will know yourself. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty
Ask where the canal can be so clear, because there is a source of living water. ——Zhu Xi, Song Dynasty ——Lu You of the Song Dynasty
The ancients spared no effort in their knowledge, and their kung fu was perfected only when they were young and old. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty
If people don’t learn, they will grow old and decline. ——Cheng Yi, Song Dynasty
Learning without converting is not learning. ——Song Dynasty Yang Wanli
The greatest danger of erudition is self-sufficiency. ——Huang Zongxi of the Qing Dynasty
Learning makes you wise, but not learning makes you stupid. ——Huang Zongxi of the Qing Dynasty
Genius comes from diligence. ——Golky
“Genius is ninety-nine percent blood sweat and one percent inspiration. ”——Edison
“Genius is the ability to work without end”——Carlyle
“Work hard for a day, and you will have a good night’s sleep; if you work hard for a lifetime, you will have a happy sleep”— —Leonardo da Vinci (Italy)
“Do you want to be a happy person? I hope you first learn to bear hardships" - Turgenev
"Inspiration is just the 'reward of tenacious labor'" - Repin
"Success = Hard work + Correct methods + less empty words” - Einstein
“The road to art is full of thorns, which is also a good thing. It discourages ordinary people, except those with strong wills” - Victor Hugo< /p>
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There is no smooth road in science. Only those who are not afraid of hard work and climb the steep mountain road can hope to reach the glorious peak.
---Marx
Human talent is like a spark, it can be extinguished or burned, and the only way to make it burn into a raging fire is to work and work again.
---Golky
If a nation wants to stand at the top of science, it must not be without theoretical thinking for a moment.
---Engels
Grit your teeth and study, not afraid of the enemy laughing at us, laughing at our ignorance, and laughing at our backwardness.
---Stalin
Between genius and diligence, I have no choice. Choose diligence without hesitation, she is the midwife of almost all achievements in the world
---Einstein
Nothing of real value in the world can. What can be obtained without hard work
---Edison
Water can only stay fresh if it flows.
---Krylov
Whoever sows seeds will have a good harvest.
---Tito
In order to spread new ideas, we need people who work with their hands.
---Galileo
The progress of a country is the sum of individual diligence, hard work, and improvement, just as the decline of a country is the sum of personal laziness, selfishness, and bad habits.
---Smiles [British writer]
Studying in idleness is no better than studying in idleness.
--- John Bayless [British educator]
Young comrades must remember that if they want to acquire all the cultural heritage of the past by running and jumping, then It can't be done. This requires tenacity and hard work.
---Ostrowski
Talented people, when they work the least, are actually the times when they work the most, because they are Conceiving and gestating ideas, these ideas are then expressed through their hands.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
People were talking about revelation and inspiration, but I was working as carefully as a jeweler working on a gold chain, and I was working hard to make it. The small rings are connected very appropriately.
---Heine
How does the world know that among the ideas and theories that have passed through the minds of scientific research workers, how many of them have been subject to his own strict criticism and censure examination? Killed silently and covertly. Even the most accomplished scientists realize less than one-tenth of their suggestions, hopes, wishes, and preliminary conclusions.
---Faraday
A drop of water will eventually penetrate the stone.
---Lucretis [ancient Roman philosopher]
Patience and perseverance will always be rewarded.
---Einstein
Love labor. Only labor brings the greatest happiness to mankind.
---Foa Obruchev
Mining one SmithKline radium requires year-round labor. If you want to arrange a word properly, you need thousands of tons of language minerals.
---Mayakovsky
Endless labor is the victory of life and the law of art.
---Balzac
Without tenacious and careful labor, even talented people will become useless playthings like embroidered pillows.
---Stanislavsky [Russian artist]
Labor is the only road leading to knowledge.
---Bernard Shaw
Continuous labor is the iron law of life and art.
---Balzac
Love labor. There is no power that can make people great and smart like labor, that is, the power of collective, friendly, and free labor. people.
---Gorky
Science cannot be obtained for nothing, --- it is true; in science, there is no other way to obtain it except sweating; whether it is enthusiasm or fantasy, No matter how much you desire with your whole body and mind, it cannot replace labor.
---Herzen
The music of working life attracted me to the Volga River. This kind of music still makes me intoxicated to this day; that was my first experience To the poetry of heroic labor, I can never forget that day.
---Gorky
Only bread exchanged for labor tastes the sweetest.
---Krylov
Laziness is the door to all evils---A lazy person is like a house without walls, the devil can enter from any side .
---Chaucer
Those who work truly enthusiastically always have hope; ---only laziness is permanent disappointment.
---Carlyle
Diligence makes everything easy, but laziness makes everything difficult.
---Franklin
Being lazy to think, unwilling to delve into and understand deeply, being complacent or satisfied with trivial knowledge are all causes of intellectual poverty. This poverty is often described in one word: "stupidity."
---Gorky
Laziness, like rust, consumes the body more than hard work; keys that are often used are always shiny.
---Franklin
Each of my sentences is the result of painstaking efforts; when I discard them, I will be better than one that can be replaced in a minute without any effort. The writer on the other sentence had it much harder.
---Gogol
No matter what we describe, to describe it, there is only one noun; to give it movement, there is only one verb; to distinguish its nature, there is only one an adjective. We must keep thinking until we get the noun, verb, and adjective. We can't always be satisfied with the same thing, we can't avoid difficulties, and use similar words and phrases to muddle through things.
---Flaubert [French writer]
A bad artist always wears other people's glasses.
---Rodin
People all have this experience: new ideas are often fleeting, and you must work hard to concentrate and keep them in mind before you can capture them. A good rule of thumb is to get into the habit of carrying a pen and paper with you and jot down any unique ideas that pop into your head.
---Beveridge
With nearly half a century of personal experience, there are no shortcuts in scientific research. Only hard work and hard work can lead to a winding path.
---Tomonaga Shinichiro [Japanese physicist]
Plagiarized ideas, just like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
--- Blessingji [British writer]
If you don’t sow in spring, it won’t grow in summer, you won’t be able to harvest in autumn, and you won’t be able to taste it in winter.
---Hyde
Even if a person is very talented, if he does not work hard, not only will he not be able to accomplish great things, but he will not be able to achieve ordinary results.
---Tchaikovsky [Russian composer]
My motto has always been: never stop writing; if I sometimes make the God of Art sleepy, it is only because Want it to be more excited when it wakes up.
---Beethoven
We must find an inseparable partner for our enthusiasm, and this partner is strict observation.
---Pasteur
Asking the right questions is often equal to solving most of the problems.
---Heisenberg [German physicist]
A day of hard work can give you a good night's sleep;
A life of hard work can give you a happy sleep. .
---Leonardo Da Vinci
To collect rose oil worth about 500 yuan per pound, four million rose flowers must be squeezed.
--- Chaplin [American artist]
Some people think that my achievements in many things are due to my "genius", which is incorrect. Anyone with a clear mind can be as successful as me if he is willing to study hard.
---Edison
Science requires everyone to have extremely intense work and great enthusiasm.
---Pavlov
Among us, only the lazy ones do nothing. ...The result of doing nothing can only be nothing. Boulders block the road, and running water blocks the way; if it does not burn, it will be extinguished --- this is the law. Long live the fire of life!
---Ostrovsky
If I don’t practice piano for one day, I don’t know what I’m playing; if I don’t practice for two days, I won’t know what I’m playing. Just play like a beginner; if I don't practice for three days, I have to learn from my students.
---Rubinsky [Russian composer]
Human thinking is amazing. As long as you focus on a certain cause, you will definitely make something that will make you successful. Was surprised by the results.
---Mark Twain [American writer]
Enthusiasm, fantasy, and desire with the whole body and mind cannot replace labor. There is no "easy" science in the world .
---Hertzin
People who are not determined to cultivate the habit of thinking will lose the greatest joy in life.
---Edison
Nature despises incompetent people. She only surrenders and reveals her secrets to capable and real people.
---Goethe
You must sit in front of the facts like a primary school student, be prepared to abandon all preconceptions, and respectfully follow the path pointed by nature, otherwise, You will gain nothing.
--- Huxley
Ask nature. It contains all the secrets and will definitely answer your questions to your satisfaction.
---Lobachevsky [Russian mathematician]
I have neither outstanding understanding nor extraordinary wit. It's just that I'm probably above the average person in terms of my ability to notice fleeting things and make detailed observations.
---Darwin
For what you want to express, you should observe it carefully for a long time, so that you can discover the characteristics that others have not discovered or written about. In everything, there is something that has not been discovered, because when people look at something, they are only used to recall what their predecessors thought about it. There is something unrecognized in the smallest things, and it is up to us to discover it.
---Flaubert
A= x + y + z
A represents success, x represents hard work, y represents rest, and z represents Stop talking nonsense.
---Einstein
I don’t have any method, I just think about something enthusiastically for a long time.
--- Newton
The areas where the greatest gains in scientific development can be made are the neglected no-man's lands between the various established departments.
---Wiener [American philosopher and mathematician]
As a scientist, when you study a major topic, you must also prepare another major research topic, otherwise , if your thinking is blocked, you will gain nothing.
---Tomonaga Shinichiro
The outstanding aircraft constructor also started his scientific path by making kites.
---Ipbarkin [Soviet metallurgist]
Stretch your hands into the depths of human life! Everyone is living, but only a few people are familiar with life. As long as you can grasp it, it will be interesting.
---Goethe
You should observe carefully in order to understand; you should work hard to understand in order to act.
---Romain Rolland
What is genius? Genius means loving work and being good at it. You must devote your life and all your strength to your chosen career...
---Gorky
Genius is nothing more than long-term patience, work hard!
---Flaubert
Genius is like this. If you work hard all your life, you will become a genius.
---Mendeleev
Genius is the gold hidden in the mine; talent is the miner who works to mine it.
---Brecht [German dramatist]
One-tenth of genius is inspiration, and nine-tenths is blood and sweat.
---Le Tolstoy
Genius is the ability to work hard.
---Carlyle [British historian]
Genius is diligence.
---Goethe
Genius is perseverance.
---Buffon [French naturalist]
Genius is strong interest and tenacious fascination.
--- Kimura Kyuichi [Japanese educator]
The so-called genius refers to a perseverant person, a diligent person, a fascinated person and a selfless person.
---Kyuichi Kimura
Genius is two percent inspiration and ninety-eight percent perspiration.
---Edison
Inspiration is generated in people's continuous work.
---Pushkin
I only believe in one thing: inspiration is generated during labor.
---Ostrovsky
Inspiration is a reward for tenacious labor.
---Rebin [Russian painter]
Inspiration---This is a guest who likes to visit lazy people. It only visits the person who calls it.
---Tchaikovsky
Inspiration is not at all about waving your hands beautifully, but the mental state of a bullock working hard.
---Tchaikovsky
I don’t have any genius, all I have is a strong affection.
---Einstein
In the field of observation, opportunity favors only the prepared mind.
---Pasteur
Like the giant Antaeus, when his feet touch Mother Earth, he will always be invincible and strong. Only Hercules can control it. When he is lured into the sky, he loses his power; the poet is strong and powerful when he does not leave the real earth, but becomes weak as long as he soars in the blue sky in fantasy.
---Heine
Suffering is a stepping stone for genius.
---Balzac
Genius inevitably has obstacles, because obstacles create genius.
---Romain Rolland
Genius is inexhaustible among the people.
---Lenin
Talents and cadres are the most precious and decisive capital among all the precious capitals in the world.
---Stalin
Wisdom, hard work and genius are higher than nobles and wealth.
---Beethoven
Land is valued for its fertility and harvest; talent is also land, but it does not produce food, but truth. If it can only breed contemplation and fantasy, no matter how great your talent is, it will only be a sandy field or a salt pond, and not even grass will grow on it.
--- Belinsky
Knowing what things should be like means you are a smart person;
Knowing what things actually are like, It shows that you are an experienced person;
Knowing how to make things better shows that you are a talented person.
--- Diderot
We should not be like ants, who collect alone; nor like spiders, who only pull silk from their own bellies; but like bees, who collect and collect silk. And sort it out, so that you can brew sweet honey.
---F. Bacon
Even if the crops watered with ink can be harvested, they have to wait ten or twenty years after sowing.
---Balzac
The poet's creation, the philosopher's dialectic, the explorer's skill---this is the material that makes up a great scientist.
---Dimiriyatev [Russian botanist]
I have sincere advice for underachieving young people; make full use of your wisdom in a timely manner; knowledge can be stored, wisdom can Nothing to hold back. Wisdom will also age, please use it properly and shine appropriately.
---Anderson [American physicist]
Intelligence is the lever that moves society.
---Balzac
The secret of success is perseverance.
---Disraeli [British politician]
My success should be attributed to energetic thinking.
---Newton
No matter what you do, you must use all your energy and concentration.
---Darwin
Genius is like this. If you work hard all your life, you will become a genius!
---Mendeleev (Russian chemist)
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent blood and sweat.
---Edison (American scientific inventor)
Genius is the ability to work hard and diligently without end.
---Carlyle
"Genius is diligence", someone once said. If this is not entirely true, it is at least largely true. Without extraordinary energy and work ability, you cannot become a genius. A so-called genius without energy or ability to work is nothing more than a beautiful soap bubble or a check that can only be cashed on the moon. However, wherever there is energy and work ability beyond ordinary people, there is genius.
--- Liebknecht
Genius---first of all, it is tireless and goal-oriented labor, and the ability to concentrate on certain things.
---Cherebakhov
Geniuses are the most powerful cattle. They have to work non-stop for eighteen hours a day.
---Jul Lerner
Genius is nothing more than long-term patience, work hard!
---Flaubert (French writer)
The so-called genius is a person who is extremely good at utilizing various talents and various things.
---William Manchester (American historian)
Genius is labor. Human talent is like a spark, which may be extinguished or ignited. There is only one way to turn it into a raging fire, and that is to work and work again.
---Gorky
Genius cannot make people do not have to work, nor can it replace labor. To develop genius, one must study for long periods of time and work with high intensity. The more talented a person is, the more complex and important the tasks he faces.
---A.A. Smirnov
My life is basically just hard work. I can say that in my seventy-five years, not a single month has passed. What we want is a truly comfortable life, just like pushing a stone up a mountain. The stone keeps rolling down and being pushed up again.
---Goethe
Geniuses exist in all ages; but unless extraordinary events happen to stir up the masses and make talented people appear, otherwise talented people will Will become rigid. At such times, emotions are accumulating and brewing in the mind, and anyone with a mouthpiece will feel the need to speak, and then speak quickly.
---Fielding
The line that separates genius from industry has not yet been determined—and it will never be determined in the future.
---Beethoven
The vastness of the spirit, the active imagination, and the diligence of the soul are genius. ......
The mind of a genius is vaster, he feels the existence of all things, and is interested in everything in nature; he does not accept an idea unless it arouses an emotion; everything Excite him, and everything is preserved in him.
---Fielding
All true geniuses can despise slander; their innate talents prevent critics from speaking freely. Those who are afraid of heavy rain are just fake flowers.
---Krylov
Geniuses inevitably have obstacles, because obstacles create genius.
--- Romain Rolland
Genius is developed due to the love of career. It can be said that genius by its essence---it is nothing but love for career. , just love for the work process.
---Gorky
Talent is long-term perseverance.
---Buffon (French writer and naturalist)
People were talking about revelation and inspiration, but I was like a jeweler working on a gold chain. Work carefully to connect the small rings very appropriately.
---Heine (German poet)
I don’t have any special talents, but I just like to pursue problems to their roots.
---Einstein
Inspiration is not about waving your hands beautifully, but about the mental state of a bull working with all his strength.
---Tchaikovsky (Russian composer)
Some people are born with wisdom, but like people who are born rich, they neglect the cultivation and gain of wealth. Being in debt, one can end up becoming a beggar and lose their reputation.
---Younger
If genius is not used, genius will definitely decline and will be eliminated in chronic decay.
---Krylov
Innate abilities must be aided by systematic knowledge. There are many things that direct learning can do, but it cannot do everything. Only when genius and science are married can the best results be achieved.
---Spencer (British sociologist and philosopher)
Although the greatest genius lies on the green grass day and night, letting the breeze blow, his eyes Looking at the sky, but the gentle inspiration will never patronize him.
---Hegel
We all have something to learn from our predecessors and peers. Even the greatest genius will never achieve much if he treats everything solely based on his unique inner self.
---Goethe
Inspiration is the reward obtained by tenacious labor.
---Rebin
Inspiration---This is a guest who doesn't like to visit lazy people.
---Chernyshevsky
My motto has always been: I never stop writing. If I sometimes make the God of Art doze off, it is just to wake him up. More excited.
---Beethoven
Do you know what genius means? That is bravery, a free mind, and a broad spirit... Planting a small tree, he can already guess what it will be like in another thousand years, and he can already dream of human happiness. Such people are rare and should be loved and protected.
---Chekhov
Man! Just rely on your own strength!
---Beethoven
Talented people must be allowed to be independent. Human beings should deeply grasp the truth that human beings should make talented people become torches and not let them be busy with private interests, because such interests will reduce their personality and make them give up their true mission.
---Saint-Simon (French utopian socialist)
Talents work, while geniuses create.
---Schumann (German composer)
One of the most basic characteristics of genius is originality or independence, followed by the universality and universality of its ideas and ideals. The depth, and finally the impact of these ideas and ideals on contemporary history, is that genius always opens up new, unheard of or unforeseen real worlds with its creations.
--- Belinsky
Talent is the gold buried in the mine, and talent is the miner who digs the mine.
---Brecendong
The most obvious sign of a great man is his strong will. No matter how much the environment changes, his original intention and hope will still not change. There is the slightest change, and obstacles are finally overcome to achieve the desired end.
---Edison
Once you choose the path of life, you must go on bravely.
---Zola
Life is hard. For those who are unwilling to settle for mediocrity, it is a day and night struggle. It is often miserable, without glory, without happiness, and is fought in loneliness and silence. ... They can only rely on themselves, but sometimes even the strongest people fail in suffering.
---Romain Rolland
The pursuit of science requires special courage.
---Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist and astronomer)
Progress means that the goal is constantly moving forward, the stages are constantly updated, and its vision is always changing.
--- Victor Hugo
Survival or destruction, this is a question worth considering; silently endure the poisonous arrows of fate or stand up against the boundless sufferings of the world, and through struggle Sweep them away. Which of these two actions is more noble? ...This cannot help but make us hesitate. ......
---Shakespeare
The more the sea is filled with reefs and the more dangerous it is, the more I find it a pleasure to seek immortality through many dangers.
--- Lametrie (French thinker and philosopher)
No smart person would deny the training value of pain and sorrow.
--- Huxley
All truly good things are obtained from struggle and sacrifice, and a better future must be obtained in the same way.
---Chernyshevsky
All perseverance and perseverance will be rewarded sooner or later.
---Ingres (French painter)
We must be strong-willed, diligent, explore, discover, never give in, and cherish what comes on our way forward. Good, endure evil in and around us and resolve to eliminate it.
--- Huxley
It is by no means unspeakable that what made me determined to devote myself to my science, and what made me zealous for it from my youth, is the following. Self-evident fact: The laws of our thinking are completely consistent with the laws of the process by which we obtain impressions from the external world, so it is possible for people to discern those laws through pure thinking. In this fact, what is of great significance is that the external world is an absolute thing independent of us, and seeking the laws suitable for this absolute thing is, in my opinion, the most beautiful mission of a scientific career. .
---Planck (German physicist)
If...a person not only imagines wanting to be free, but also truly has the strong will to fight for freedom, then any No human violence could force him to remain a slave for long.
---Hegel
Tenacious perseverance can conquer any peak in the world.
---Dickens
Never give up on yourself...just walk, as long as you walk, strength will naturally arise!
---Fabre (French entomologist)
Man's bounden duty is to have the courage to explore the truth.
---Copernicus (Polish astronomer)
It is difficult to say what is impossible, because yesterday's dream can be today's hope, and it can also become tomorrow reality.
--- Robert (American scientist)
Young comrades must remember that it is impossible to acquire all the cultural heritage of the past by running and jumping. It requires perseverance and hard work.
---Ostrovsky
There is no smooth road in science, only those who are not afraid of hard work on the rugged path, Only then can we hope to reach the pinnacle of glory.
---Marx
Although (great men) become great because of perseverance, they can also become great because of disasters. So unfortunate people! Do not complain too much, for the best of mankind is with you.
--- Romain Rolland
I am fundamentally opposed to that weak ending, asking a human defender to reconcile with the human oppressor. Prometheus endured so much pain and spoke so many fierce words that the moral significance of this fable might be completely lost if we thought that he would go back on his word and bow to that powerful and evil enemy.
---Shelley (British poet)
Our lives are not easy, but what does it matter? We must have perseverance and especially self-confidence! We must believe that our gifts are meant to be used to do something, and no matter how great the cost, this thing must be done.
---Marie Curie
Just because I believe in the eternal evolution of human beings and its infinite shape, I hate all the frameworks used to desperately fit it in; So I hate all the rules that limit it and all the plans that are devised for it.
---Flaubert
All I have to do is use my meager strength to serve truth and justice, even if others don't like it.
---Einstein
Laziness, like rust, consumes the body more than hard work; keys that are often used are always shiny.
---Franklin
True happiness is optimism about life, happiness at work, and excitement about career.
---Einstein
Laziness is the path to extreme poverty and the root of all evil.
---Sparjon (UK)