"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."

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"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

Work, Beliefs

"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Responsibility

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Work, Blessings, Success, Faith

"We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God's feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God's share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of 'our own' pocket, a deduction from the time which ought, we feel, to be 'our own'. A man starts a new job with a sense of vocation and, perhaps, for the first week still keeps the discharge of the vocation as his end, taking the pleasures and pains from God's hand, as they came, as 'accidents'. But in the second week he is beginning to 'know the ropes': by the third, he has quarried out of the total job his own plan for himself within that job, and when he can pursue this he feels that he is getting no more than his rights, and when he cannot, that he is being interfered."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Work, Vocation, Day, God, Effort

"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Work, Labor, Truth, Observation

"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Work, Boss, Success, Retirement, Life

"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."

Play,

"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."

Discipline, Intention, Sound

"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."

Music,

"I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts."

Being, Challenge, Play

"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."

May, Past

"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."

Building, Property

"We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars."

American,

"This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses."

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"The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape."

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"And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser."

People, Now, Reason