"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
-Henry David Thoreau
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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