“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.”

“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.”

“My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”

“I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.”

“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.”

“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”

“Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.”

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.”

“The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?”

“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”

“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”

“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”

“It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.”