Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work – the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Stay persistent and dedicated to your goals.
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.
By the work one knows the workman.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.