Quotations about

Working

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.

—Leonard Bernstein

I have seen the future and it doesn't work.

—Robert Fulford

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

—George Eliot

Every moment that passes and I am stuck in this room is a moment that I am not working toward accomplishing my quest. Waiting is not acting. And not acting is akin to failing. How can I wait anymore?

—Bree Despain in The Shadow Prince

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

—Robert Frost