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Work Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes…
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
- The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort…
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