A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
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 G. K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
