Explore more quotes by James Nasmyth

"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."

Work, Order

"Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy."

War,

"OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us."

History, Race

"My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played."

Family, Father, Children, Day, Old

"In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect."

Time, Brothers, Effect, London

"Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced."

Power, Time, England, Russia

"Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect."

Old,

"From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition."

Life, Music, Enjoyment, Listening

"But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy."

Beauty, Astronomy, Pursuit

Exlpore more Work quotes

"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Work, Skill, Identity, Expertise, Education

"The world system is employment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Work, World, System, Employment, Control

"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

Steven Magee, British Author

Work, Police, Stress, Danger, Health

"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Work, Butler, Writer, Mind

"Do not be weary to make money."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Work, Do, Weary, Money, Life

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Work,

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Work, Truth, Life, Happiness, Regret

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Work, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Work, Self, Identity, Values

"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Work, Effort, Strength