Work Quotes
“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”
“The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.”
-- Gustave Flaubert
“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.”
-- James A. Baldwin
“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”
-- Louis C. K.
“Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.”
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg