In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.
A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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