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 Jerome K. Jerome
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be...
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should...
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
