Work Quotes
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
-- Edwin Land
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
-- William Hazlitt
“Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.”
-- Thomas Aquinas
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
-- Calvin Coolidge
“There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.”
-- Emmanuelle Beart
“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
-- William James
“The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
-- Robert Frost