Work Quotes - Page 40

• It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

  James A. Michener

  Thinking, Years, Opera

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• The frivolous work of polished idleness.

  James Mackintosh

  Polished, Frivolous, Idleness

  James Mackintosh (1872). “On the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries”, p.232

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• The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Math, Uniforms, Construction

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Ideas, Ordinary

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• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone. Answering why he had not implemented organizational reforms after five months when 'God created the universe in seven day

  Kofi Annan

  Reform, Able, Months

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• After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season. I have been wrestling with the timing of announcing that decision. After seeing the outstanding attitude and work ethic of this team, I came to the conclusion that it's best to get the announcement out of the way now so we can focus on the season and avoid the repeated distractions that come from questions about my retirement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Attitude, Team

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• The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?

  Louis Agassiz

  Age, Ploughing, Earth

  Louis Agassiz (1876). “Geological Sketches”

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• I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

  Loren C. Dunn

  Father, Branches, Congregation

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• In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Rising

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• What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Posterity, Artist

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.512, Jester House Publishing

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• The hardest work of all - doing nothing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Doing Nothing, Hardest

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• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

  Michael Korda

  Males, Method, Minimum

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• It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

  Peter O'Toole

  Grieving, Perfect, Produce

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• Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Suffering, Chastisement

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics

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• Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

  Richard L. Evans

  Blessing, Men, Giving

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• No work begun shall ever pause for death.

  Robert Browning

  Pauses

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.289, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

  Auguste Rodin

  Littles, Born, Proportion

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• So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

  Samuel Gompers

  Long, Employment, Hours

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.

  Shel Silverstein

  Creating, Style, Lucky

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• Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Running, Long, Evil

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• We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

  Stanley Gault

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• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Despair, Calling

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.168

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• All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Grows, Spread, Seeds

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.118

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Political, Letters, Constitution

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• During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my work and my family." Now, let me tell you why I believe they see it that way. Because when they look around the room, they see the women who are going to be in their lives, the choices they will have for a spouse. And they realize that these women are educated, ambitious, and have every intention of having careers of their own.

  Vicki Donlan

  Business, Believe, Men

  Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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