So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
It feels good to have your work respected again.
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it. . . You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.
It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.
You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.
I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.
I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.
Surround yourself with problem solvers, not problem creators.
The designer must think first and work later.
The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.
Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.
Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.
You can only work on yourself. Start there.