Pastoral Resources

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.