A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?
A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.
Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool.
To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.
My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.
I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
