It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to...
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Ann Patchett
I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
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Joseph Conrad
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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Aristotle
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
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Anne Frank
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
More Quotes By John Ruskin
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
