It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy,... no reward save a few dollars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yeste...rdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and ...the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now... direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to rea...d Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you ...one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if h...e first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yours of the 24th, asking "the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law" is received. The mode is very simple, thoug...h laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marj...oram. Even so with the pieces borrowed from others; one will transform and blend them to make a work that is all one's own, that is, one's judgement. Education, work, and study aim only at forming this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is ...to study that new world as closely as possible, approaching it as something brand new, having no obvious connection with the worlds we already know. When this new world has been closely studied, then and only then let us examine its links with other worlds, other branches of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »