“Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.” PeopleShouldMindNamesWorkDoubtDangerousTasteDrugProveScientistNo DoubtDestructiveFatigueIndulgeProve It Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks
“Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.” PeopleLifeKindMomentsValuesTermWorkDoubtShareMetsActivityCapacityAvailableInsightImpulseUnexpectedInternalsDedicationFierceAngst Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.” FeelsWellsSometimesSeemsFacesWorkDoubtDutyConscienceProfoundSatisfactionFollowingSuperiorsEmptinessMidstSpontaneousObeyingEnnuiSneerFatality Author:Gustave Flaubert
“I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.” IfsHardHurtWorkDoubtHard Work Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley