If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it –not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.
Industrial man –a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.
It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
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