“It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do; and which should he done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.”
William Morris
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”
Barbra Streisand
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.”
William Maxwell
“Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.”
W. Kelly Griffith
