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1. "Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim." - Ovid
2. "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway
3. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Hemingway, again
4. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” - Sun Tzu
5. “While you are working, you don’t have to look life in the eye.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
6. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” - Coco Chanel
7. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” - Leo Tolstoy
8. “Work without love is slavery.” - Mother Theresa
9. “A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.” - Emily Bronte
10. “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” - Gustave Flaubert
11. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” - Dr. Seuss
12. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde
13. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” - Mary Oliver
14. “I hate writing, I love having written.” - Dorothy Parker
15. “Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.” - Terry Eagleton
16. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill
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