Fame is a by-product. Fame is something that should happen because you do work that speaks to people and people want to know about your work. Unfortunately the personality of people has taken over from the work and the artistry and it's this thing now that stands on its own. I don't think one should ever aspire to being famous.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems... you can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.
Madonna Louise Ciccone
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet,sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. IsnÃt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedóas I am surprisingly oftenówhy I bother to get up in the mornings
Richard Dawkins
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert
B. C. Forbes
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Hesiod
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
Work is the price which is paid for reputation
Baltasar Gracian
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life
Harvey MacKay
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
Voltaire
If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?
Herman Melville