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• Whether for life or death, do your own work well. — John Ruskin
• Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the… — George Eliot
• You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from… — Gautama Buddha
• The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it. — Andrew Carnegie
• To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes… — Steve Almond
• Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. — Zadie Smith
• In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing… — Swami Vivekananda
• Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work. — Seth Godin
• The key is to do your own work. — Kyle Bass
• As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would… — Emmet Gowin
• What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra… — Joan Didion

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