Work is the way you occupy your mind & hand & eye and whole body, when they’re informed by your imagination & wit, by your keenest perceptions, by your most profound reflections on everything you’ve read & seen & heard and been a part of.
Work Is When You Put Off Playtime
Out here by myself in 2016 at a place almost totally inaccessible to normal people; motorcycle stuck on that hill for several hours. There’s no water! Nowadays I stay home, look at the picture.
He turned to Stephen and said:
—Seriously, Dedalus. I’m stony. Hurry out to your school kip and bring us back some money.
—That reminds me, Haines said, rising, that I have to visit your national library today.
—Our swim first, Buck Mulligan said.”
Ulysses by James Joyce
The danger of heaven lies in the fact that one cannot climb it … The effects of the time of danger are truly great.
The I Ching or Book of Changes
Hard hats and wet boots make for safe work on a weekday morning.
One character announces, “We’ll probably have to work all night on this presentation.” Another character replies, “That’s brilliant! Use inefficiency to make procrastination look like martyrdom!”
Dilbert Cartoon