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“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”

Doe Art Said Play Facts Hands Left Work Strange Fingers Reactions Thank God Dedication Hiking Bloody San Francisco Enslavement Left Hand Boulders Hurling

Author:Pablo Casals

“He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.”

Author:Reba McEntire

“In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.”

“If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.”

People Ifs Want Should Years Humans Ends Left Work Human Beings Alive Hard Work Labor Cease Labour Divided Provision Subsistence

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45

“A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.”

People Has Beens Left Waiting Work Streets Standing Perfection Corners Disappointed Bus Street Corners

Author:Donald Kennedy

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”

Inspirational Left Women Work Libertarian Empowering Unfinished Creative Artists Creative Ideas Unfinished Work

Book:Prose Works of Christina Rossetti

Source: Prose Works of Christina Rossetti

“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”