Anton Chekhov Quotes, Work Quotes, Artist Quotes

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Work Quotes

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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To be is to be related.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Work Quotes , Perfect Quotes

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Work Quotes

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

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The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

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The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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