Work Quotes

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more.

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

I know that many will call this useless work. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy-on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.