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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
My work is a game, a very serious game.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.