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  • I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Work Quotes , Doe Quotes
  • 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Work Quotes , Book Quotes
  • One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Work Quotes , Eye Quotes