Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Work Quotes, Pride Quotes

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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None but those who work are entitled to eat.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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The only way round is through.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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Implementation beats oration.

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I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

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Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes