Doing a good job

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Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Doing a good job Vocation

Speaker

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life." 9 April 1967, New Convenant Baptist Church, Chicago, IL, USA. Sermon.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Lord Chesterfield

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Doing a good job

Author

Lord Chesterfield

Source

Letters of Lord Chesterfield

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1746 1740s 18th century

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Citation

Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to His Son. 10 Mar. 1746.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Vocation Doing a good job Doing one's job

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really really well.

Parks and Recreation

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Doing a good job Fake it 'til you make it

Speaker

Andy Dwyer

Actor

Chris Pratt

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

"The Camel." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Rachel Axler, directed by Millicent Shelton, season 2, episode 9, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2009.

Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right.

A League of Their Own

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Doing things the right way Doing a good job

Speaker

Jimmy Dugan

Actor

Tom Hanks

Source

A League of Their Own

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Comedy drama (film) Sports Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

A League of Their Own. Directed by Penny Marshall, Parkway Productions, 1992.