Rigorous Work Quotes

#1. People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#2. They say she was once a grand lady and lived on the hill. But she took to reading books and went from bad to worse. Stuffed her head full of ideas, and now she's a bit addled.

Helen Deutsch

#3. But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

David Brin

#4. Schadenfreude is as old as the Scriptures. Believe me, when the girls in the Red Sea bowling league heard that Lot's wife had morphed into a pillar of salt, the deer-lick jokes flew.

Dennis Miller

#5. God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Hedy Lamarr

#7. One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Nina Bawden

#8. You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

John Calipari

#9. Life IS a competition. ALWAYS. No matter whether any of us want it to be or not!

Sahara Sanders

#10. Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#12. To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

Jerry Cantrell

#13. To be rigorous means that the best people need not worry about their positions, leaving them to concentrate fully on doing their best work.

Wilson Publishers

#14. Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.

Donald Trump

#15. I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

Mark Morris

#16. Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

Dexter Palmer

#17. Popularity is not the mark of a properly rigorous academic work.

Pat Murphy

#18. Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Karl Kraus

#19. We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to "make not provision for the flesh" [Romans 13:14 KJV].

Billy Graham

#20. That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Meryl Streep

#21. The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.

Bill Bonner

#22. We labor hard for certain but the work is rote and our tomorrows are mostly settled and the way we love one another is cast by the form of our excellent contiguity, a rigorous closeness that only rarely oversteps its bounds.

Chang-rae Lee