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Work Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
- To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the…
- Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
- Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts…
- The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating…
- I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to…
- Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
- People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
- Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his…
- Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making…
- Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't…
- People travel for the same reason they collect works of art: because the best people do it
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach