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- It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
- Charles M. Schwab
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
- The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
- Raoul Vaneigem
- I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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