Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Ambition is destruction, only competence matters.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Here I am, where I ought to be.
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
Work is creativity accompanied by the comforting realization that one is bringing forth something really good and necessary, with a conviction that a sudden, arbitrary cessation would cause a sensitive void, produce a loss.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.