In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's... →
Steve Toltz
It's my job, first and foremost, to take care of the football. Guys work their tails off. That's Football 101. From the time you play youth... →
Scott Tolzien
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and... →
Kiana Tom
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I... →
Claire Tomalin
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full... →
In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose... →
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What... →