Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Work Quotes, Mean Quotes

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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Implementation beats oration.

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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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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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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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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.

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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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

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Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

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