The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the...

Oddly, I found myself calmer than I’d been in a long while. Maybe it was simply because my muscles ached or maybe because I felt that nothing was more compelling than the stack of wood...

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated.

I drove your lunch to work, and I parked it in my stomach.

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

By the work one knows the workman.

My parents’ work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going – to keep me going. I realized that, although...

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material production. Just...

Work hard to play harder.

It’s just a huge amount of work.

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I once met a woman who’d been in therapy… and it seemed like the big thing she’d learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That’s when the negative...

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers,...

I’ve always enjoyed his work,

I work on a lot of different stuff.

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people...

Who says you need to wait until you ‘feel like’ doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn’t that you don’t feel motivated; it’s that you imagine you need...