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Work Quotes by John Steinbeck
- My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .
- Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
- One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and…
- Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.
- Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an…
- You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
- Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
- It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
- The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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