Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul... →
Ben Kingsley
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and... →
Charles Kingsley
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people... →
Barbara Kingsolver
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to... →
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape... →
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston
I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.