Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts

Sunday, March 05, 2023

Post #3166

We work to become, not to acquire.
—Elbert Hubbard

Friday, January 04, 2019

Post #2735

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
—H. W. Shaw

Monday, September 11, 2017

Post #2401

I cannot abide to see men throw away their tools the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure in their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. The very grindstone 'll go on turning a bit after you loose it.
—George Eliot

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Post #2214

Get work! Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Monday, October 13, 2014

Post #1661

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make much money nor to find much fun in life.
 — Charles M. Schwab

Friday, July 18, 2014

Post #1600

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Post #1575

The roughest road often leads to the smoothest fortune.
—Benjamin Franklin

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Post #1343

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
—John Ruskin

Monday, June 03, 2013

Post #1267

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
—John Ruskin

Friday, May 03, 2013

Post #1246

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble...A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.
—Thomas Carlyle

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Post #1220

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You may be losing your soul.
—Logan Pearsall Smith

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Post #1142

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
—Francis Bacon

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Post #1009

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
—Abraham Maslow

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Post #947

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously, and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous.
—Margot Fonteyn

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Post #922

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
—Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Post #820

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
—Robert Half

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Post #810

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Post #717

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
—Miles Davis

Friday, September 09, 2011

Post #706

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
—Confucius

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Post #649

I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
—Helena Rubenstein

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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