We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true. - Nikola Tesla
My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. - Nikola Tesla
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. - Immanuel Kant
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something. - Isaac Asimov
Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days. - Isaac Asimov
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. - Carl Jung
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. - C.S. Lewis
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too. - Jason Mraz
I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know. - Jason Mraz
For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work. - Miranda Kerr
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. - Napoleon Hill
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented. - Marilyn Monroe
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps. - Matthew McConaughey
