work

The force, the mass of character, mind, heart or soul that a man can put into any work is the most important factor in that work.

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

People don't want to work to make themselves one inch taller, they would rather push the other guy down.

A work of real merit finds favor at last.

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.