"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." ― William Hazlitt Topic(s): Business More From William Hazlitt "We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts." "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us." "A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles." More In Business "For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."― Howard Nemerov "Well, there’s different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I’m working in this business but I’m not Hollywood."― Shia LaBeouf "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."― Thomas Mann