The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing return….
You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only….
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work..
Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only….
Everything I do, I do for love..
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have….
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but ….
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..
A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it..
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. ….
Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?".
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God..
Learning patience takes a lot of patience!.
I learned the value of hard work by working hard..
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labo….
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost..
All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture..
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it..
I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..
My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious..