#work

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#essential #everything #great #history #philosophers

Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#believe #believing #coming #part #something

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#around #athlete #businessman #get #getting

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#enthusiasm #flunked #grade #i #just

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #circuit #dyslexic #eye #eyes

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical. ↗

— Ian St. John

#everybody #finishes #first #first thing #goes

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#bend #calmness #catholic #catholic church #church

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.' ↗

— Jasper Johns

#could #decided #i #identify #likeness

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#else #find #getting #having #head