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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
German (Swiss-born) alchemist & physician (1493 - 1541)

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome
British humor writer (1859 - 1927)

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland
(1876 - 1950)

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher
Dutch artist (1898 - 1972)

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

William Safire
US columnist & speechwriter (1929 - )

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Tao Te Ching

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

Booth Tarkington
US novelist (1869 - 1946)

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser
US industrialist (1882 - 1967)

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964
US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
US movie actress (1908 - 1989)

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin
English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

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