"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

Charles Horton Cooley, American Sociologist

Work, Mind, Self, Suicide

9

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

Exlpore more Work quotes

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Work, World, System, Employment, Control

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

Work, Police, Stress, Danger, Health

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Work, Butler, Writer, Mind

"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Do, Weary, Money, Life

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Work,

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Life, Happiness, Regret

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Work, Self, Identity, Values

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength

Explore more quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

Success

"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."

Discipline

"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."

Mind

"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

Etiquette

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."

Compromise

"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."

Life

"The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society."

Society

"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."

Heroism

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

Government

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

Action