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Best Work Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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.…
- [S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that…
- I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly…
- To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an…
- The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that…
- It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the…
- What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
- That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained,…
- As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you…
- Things always work according to their nature.
- You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for…
- The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid…
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