“If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.”
Work takes up most of your waking hours, which is why it matters whether you find meaning in it. These quotes cover careers, hustle, burnout, passion, and the search for a balance between making a living and making a life.
“In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.”
“If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.”
“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”
“I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.”
“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.”
“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
“Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.”
“Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.”
“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”
“It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
“Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.”
“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”