“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
“The pay is good and I can walk to work.”
“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.”
“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”