#work

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ↗

— Henry J. Kaiser

#interrupt #itself #speaks #your

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#education #inspiration #psychology #work #art

Compared to art, all other professions are but chores. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#profession #work #art

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art

Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#jesus #joyce-meyer #life #schedule #strength

I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-angel #glib #humorous #infenal-devices #jam

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#contemporary #half #how #length #novel

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year. ↗

— Frederick Seidel

#love #poetry #beauty

I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional. ↗

— Brittany Snow

#because #bit #cool #emotional #except

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#according #each #evaluate #future #his