“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
– George Carlin
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Tag Archives: Work
On Work
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
– J.M. Barrie
On Laziness
“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
– Jules Renard
On Experience
“Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
– Franklin P. Jones
To Work With Love
‘And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.’
– Gibran. K. 1923. De Profeet [The Prophet] Den Haag, The Netherlands: Mirananda (2000) p. 24-25
On Dreaming One’s Work
“I dream my painting and then paint my dream.”
– Vincent van Gogh
On Privilege
“Privilege is toxic.”
– Jerry Seinfeld
The Economics of Digging a Hole
‘If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.’
– Keynes. J.M. (1936) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Book III: The Propensity to Consume London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan p. 129
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