hard-work Quotes

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

When I was teaching at Cambridge, I sold handbags on the market.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock. Once you dig that foundation - and they dig with dynamite - and once you dynamite out and you secure that foundation, that building isn't going anywhere.