I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
Category: work
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
You only live once – but if you work it right, once is enough.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.