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May you find great value in these Painstaking quotes and sayings.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance
and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.
Capital is only the fruit of labor,
and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the superior of capital,
and deserves much the higher consideration.
- Abraham Lincoln
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Towering genius disdains a beaten path.
It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room,
remember, never to say that you are alone,
for you are not alone, but God is within,
and your genius is within.
- Epictetus
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord,
for I was not anchored to a house or farm,
but could follow the bent of my genius,
which is a very crooked one, every moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law
from observation of the works of Genius,
whether of man or Nature.
The Artisan is he who merely applies
the rules which others have detected.
- Henry David Thoreau
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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