Quotes on Work

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.