#work

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#characters #fiction #fiction writers #happens #into

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working. ↗

— David Rudisha

#break #championships #coach #did #final

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extraordinary #managed #produce #situations #terrible

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. ↗

— John Ruskin

#body #chiefly #creature #great #great art

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better. ↗

— Jane Rule

#beautiful way #better #craft #else #far

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#decisions #execution #fact #his #in fact

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fact #meaning #records #richest #story

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#contrary #day #first #house #last

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work. ↗

— Greg Rusedski

#flowing #game #get #highs #like

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York. ↗

— Otis Rush

#new #new york #occasionally #oh #out