work
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
“Nothing is achieved without much labor.”
“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”
“The end crowns the work.”
“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.”
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
“Nothing would be done at all, if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.”
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.”
“Do not depend on the hope of results.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”