"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
― John Steinbeck
Topic(s):
Work
More From John Steinbeck
- "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."
- "Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners."
- "It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
More In Work
- "I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."― Theodore Roosevelt
- "I’m one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I’m trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I’m doing now."― Hillary Clinton
- "When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."― George Carlin