Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.