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Work Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers,…
- rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
- Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
- A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...…
- The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A…
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