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 Robert Benchley
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
