"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost."

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Source : William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing

William Carlos Williams

#Stress Quotes #Writing Quotes #Men Quotes

“Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.”
“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously”
“Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.”
“The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.”
“For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.”
“People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.”
“We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody”
“Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.”

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