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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

You look at anything I've been a part of, it's when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that's what shows what you're going to be.