F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Work Quotes, Eye Quotes

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

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

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It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

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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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The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Change Quotes , Work Quotes

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Work Quotes , Generosity Quotes

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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