Paul Lester Wiener famous quotes

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.
-- Paul Lester Wiener

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I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride.
-- Paul Lester Wiener

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.