#labor

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. ↗

— George Porter

#also #collaborators #family #happiness #home

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research. ↗

— Frank Press

#across #country #departments #give #going

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#communication #elaborate #less #means #more

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#basic #elaborate #immediately #made #makes

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. ↗

— Quintilian

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In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#collaborative #deaf #effect #everything #feel

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. ↗

— Robert Reich

#build #collaborative #entire #innovative #leader

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. ↗

— Cecil Rhodes

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