Quotes
Quotes about Work
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
I worked with patience which means almost power.
Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.
To get Peace you must work for Justice.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
