A Quote by James Whistler

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

James Whistler

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James Whistler
American - Artist
July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

Ezra Taft Benson

In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's calling is in the home, not in the marketplace.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow.

Ezra Taft Benson

Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.

Marcia Fudge

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Zora Neale Hurston

O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons, perhaps, less worthy of you than your old master. Yet how dear to me are they all! Have I not chosen them one by one, gathered them all in with the sweat of my brow? I do love you all!

Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

St. Jerome

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Criss Jami

Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

Harold Pinter

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

Mahatma Gandhi

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Abraham Lincoln

Teaching is hard. It takes years to master the technically demanding work and a lot of effort to do that work well.

Michael Bennet

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.