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[...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the weak - in order to make the whole stronger.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
The end crowneth the work.
When you work behind the ropes, you know the heartbreaking stories behind their smiles; you see the pins and nauseating amount of hair products that glaze their heads; and you see the wedges (even flats) under their eternally beaded gowns.
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.
We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden.
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal.
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
The labour we delight in physics pain
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future
Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed ...
The labor we delight in physics pain.
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
light chariot, and establish love.
[Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]
No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason, all parts of the work need to be done exactly according to the rules of the art which all workmen know, but few observe.
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.
To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Anger.
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
They all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, [2] strengthen my hands.
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
We wear the chains we forge in life,
Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain.
This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
ora et labora, prayer and work.
Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.
Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.
the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens
[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
Under the long and discurtained ordeal of the morrow's dawn, that
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.
We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
The most difficult kind of strength
restraint.
A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.
Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag.
Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini,
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
men crown the knave and scourge the tool that did his will
The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.
I borrow the stilts of an old tragedy.
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
Work is the province of cattle.
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.
Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.
There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.
Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
My streets, my cistern. My old house. Its beams, floorboards and staircase creaked slightly, almost imperceptibly, with a dry, uniform, almost constant cracking sound. What's wrong? Where does it hurt? It seemed to be complaining of aches in its bones, in its centuries-old joints.
O Lazy bones! Dostrong>ststrong> thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'strong>ststrong> use them?
She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
Rigid geometry forced in varied curves is "mother," / is "nature," is systematic violation." Muy Bueno. / This device is for you, the mutilated of no art.
The hand is the tool of tools.
Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
You have an unusual equipment for fate, exercise with care!'
Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them ... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.
When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.
Judging from the array of swords and axes and daggers and bows and other implements of killing and dismemberment that they carried around, she gathered that manual dexterity was an imperative.
The better to kill you with, my dears.
In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
Strength is the outcome of need;
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.