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Work Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if…
- All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
- Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human,…
- Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the…
- Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control,…
- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength…
- A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
- A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing…
- I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not…
- One must work with time and not against 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