There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.
We must make working life more human.
If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
There will be time enough some day to work less.