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Work Quotes by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
- Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
- Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,…
- I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of…
- The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all…
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- 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
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- 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