David O. McKay Quotes
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
Quotes to Explore
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.
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I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
