Work Quotes
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.”
-- George W. Bush
“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
-- Thomas Aquinas