The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Quotes tagged ‘Work’
I just continue.
My husband, did the great work of the war, but Grant, had all the pecuniary compensation.
I want everything – love, adventure, intimacy, work.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.
My boss told me to have a good day... So I went home.
— JJiwnl, reddit.com
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.
You don't need brains to carry a handbarrow. That's why the foreman had put these ex-bosses on the job.
Work, he reckoned, was the best medicine of all.
There are two ends to a stick, and there's more than one way of working. If it's for a human being—make sure and do it properly. If it's for the big man—just make it look good.
People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All t…
A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, o…
There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For heaven and the future´s sakes.
You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.
My Uncle always said "Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life! He did heroin.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.