“No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way, you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.”
Orison Swett Marden.
Doing even humble work with an artist's spirit lifts it above mere drudgery.
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