“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.” IfsDoeHas BeensMomentsSeemsTogetherSoundHoursLinesBreakSweetHard WorkStonesHarderBonesKitchenWork HarderNoisyPavementMarrowIdlers Book:Later Poems Source: Later Poems
“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsArtMatterHardArtistValuesSoundChanceResponsibilityProductsHard WorkTestsResponseHonestlySufficientMore TimeLackingMonopolyChances AreArtistryAnalyzingTrue ValueCommercialism Book:Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel
“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.” IfsWayWantHardBeautifulFunSoundHard WorkEnjoyedWorking ItFun Work Author:Aaron Spelling
“And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.” ChildrenHardScienceSoundVoiceCan DoHard WorkAnalysisYou Can Do ItMoleculesSignaturesToddlerPlaytime Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.” IfsHardFactsSoundLinesSuccessfulHard WorkColdBasesLuckTradeBlowCornersNonsenseSpeculationTediousChivalryPork Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court