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Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

Stephen Hawking
Jobs, Giving, Done

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking
Giving, Purpose, Aliens
"Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 7, 2010.

It matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking
Giving Up, Giving, Matter
"Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech" by Nick Collins, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 8, 2012.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

Stephen Hawking
Average, Weather, Giving
"Predicting the Future". Book by Leo Howe and Alan Wain, 1993.

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Stephen Hawking
Fall, Past, Giving

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Stephen Hawking
Beautiful, Giving, Might
Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.106, Random House

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Stephen Hawking
Past, Giving, Increase
"A Brief History of Time". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

Stephen Hawking
Dark, Science, Giving

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking
Ideas, Giving, Trying

there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Stephen Hawking
Ideas, Differences, Giving

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