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Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
- Knowledge
- Love
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis1849–1914James Clear’s Atomic Habits as attributed to Riis in the San Antonio Spurs locker room
Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.
Margot Robbieborn 1990Chris Lee, “Margot Robbie’s careful ‘overnight sensation’ plan”, Los Angeles Times (11 January 2014)
- Success
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919A Square Deal (1903)
When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778II
- Thinking
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
John Ruskin1819–1900Lectures on Art (1870), Lecture III
- Art
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter VI: The Lamp of Memory, section 10
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
John Ruskin1819–1900Sesame and Lilies (1864-1869)
You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume II, chapter VI, section 12
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness
- Money
I’m known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I’m doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Statements to New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh, as quoted in Salinger: A Biography (2000) by Paul Alexander
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk1914–1995On receiving the Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement (23 April 1956)
- Success
It is not society’s fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal