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 Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but as he was given to saying it straightened out one's thoughts.
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
