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Work Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
- Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
- There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
- It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back…
- If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
- No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
- Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. Happy work is best done by the man who takes his…
- Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
- There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
- Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.
- The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how…
- It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
- And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and…
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- 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 just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell