Elation Quote by Alexander Calder Download Open image “About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).” — Alexander Calder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elation Firsts Joy Method Mind Psychology State of mind States
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually. — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she could be… — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
