981 private quotes tagged work

“To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.” — Pablo Picasso

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“The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius

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“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.” — Plato

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“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“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.” — Stephen Hawking

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“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” — John F. Kennedy

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“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.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

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“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.” — Tennessee Williams

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“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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“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.” — John Burroughs

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“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“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.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“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.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

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“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.” — Alan Watts

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“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.” — Robert Kennedy

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“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.” — Pablo Picasso

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