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 Laurence J. Peter
Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
