The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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