981 private quotes tagged work

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo

1 fav

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” — Thomas A. Edison

1 fav

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Emile Zola

1 fav

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.” — Plato

1 fav

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 fav

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.” — Oscar Wilde

1 fav

“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?” — Tennessee Williams

1 fav

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo da Vinci

1 fav

“The pay is good and I can walk to work.” — John F. Kennedy

1 fav

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.” — Thomas J. Watson

1 fav

“Evil gains work their punishment.” — Sophocles

1 fav

“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” — John Burroughs

1 fav

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” — Pablo Picasso

1 fav

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.” — Tennessee Williams

1 fav

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

1 fav

“Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou

1 fav

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” — Thomas Carlyle

1 fav

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

1 fav

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts

1 fav

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 fav

“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.” — William Feather

1 fav

“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” — Thomas A. Edison

1 fav

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” — Carl Jung

1 fav

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” — Robert Kennedy

1 fav

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” — E. B. White

1 fav