Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
The harder I work the more I live.
Without work all life goes rotten.
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.
If you love something, the work will be just fine.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows
I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
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