The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.
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 Paul Tillich
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No."Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
