Work Quotes
“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
-- John Ruskin
“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.”
-- E. W. Howe
“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.”
-- Michael Jackson
“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
-- Sam Ewing
“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
-- Bette Davis