"Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education."
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"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
"I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!"
"My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work."
"I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude."
"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
"There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams."
"Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure."
"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
"We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'"
"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."
"Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted."
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness."