Quotes on Work

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

We're all working together; that's the secret.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

God always strives together with those who strive.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.