Famous Work Quotes
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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.
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to 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.
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.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
By the work one knows the workman.
Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. Stay persistent and dedicated to your goals.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.
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.
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Every reader finds himself. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
