Thoughtful Thursday

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."
- Robert Frost

"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
- John Steinbeck

"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
- Tennessee Williams

"The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen."
- Gustave Flaubert

"Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ('loving and working'). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction."
- David Elkind

"God made integers, all else is the work of man."
- Leopold Kronecker

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
- George Steiner