I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again.
Pleasure in the job gives perfection in the work.
If the youth can't make a living through creative work, they will do something else and the artistic world will be dealt a blow.
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.’
As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.”
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
There is no freedom, no culture without work.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
Work is no disgrace; it is idleness which is a disgrace.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
Better workers on Earth than king in Hades (underworld)
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ---- Whatever advice you give, be short.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced.
Work is a joy, laziness is a scourge.
He who works only for himself is like cattle that care only for their bellies.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.
I need to work to feel well.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
At some given moment it happens that the child becomes deeply interested in a piece of work; we see it in the expression on his face, his intense concentration, the devotion to the exercise.
The child who has never learned to work by himself, to set goals for his own acts, or to be the master of his own force of will is recognizable in the adult who lets others guide his will and feels a constant need for approval of others.
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.Play is the work of childhood.
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.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
It is impossible to work at the same time upon frontispieces of books: a Virgin: at the picture for the congregation of St. Louis, at the designs for the gallery, and for the king's tapestry! I have only a feeble head, and am not aided by anyone!
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
It is the work that matters, not the applause that follows.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Skalkotas's most famous work, based on Greek traditional dances, is "36 Greek Dances"
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
I dreamed that shoulder to shoulder with my companions I was returning to the village after a full day of work, in the evening light, happy, in such a dream.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
Science is magic that works.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.