"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."

Work, Idea

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"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."

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"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."

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"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."

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"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."

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"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."

God, Work, Joy, Mystery

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."

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

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"The world system is employment."

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

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"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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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

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"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."

"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."

"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."

"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."

"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."

"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."

"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."

"Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action."

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

"The world system is employment."

"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."

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

"Do not be weary to make money."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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