“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”
“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.”
“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.”
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”