Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

William James

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

William James

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

W. Somerset Maugham

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

William Shakespeare

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

William T. Vollmann

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Annie Dillard

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Don Marquis

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

John Dewey

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Kathy Acker

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Lucy Larcom

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Mary Oliver

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Ogden Nash

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Plato

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

Robert Hass

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

Stanley Hauerwas

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Annie Besant