Quotes About Laboriousness

The modern, noisy, time-engrossing, conceited, foolishly proud laboriousness educates and prepares for 'unbelief' more than anything else.

How free from all vanity he carried himself in matter of honour and dignity, (as they are esteemed:) his laboriousness and assiduity, his readiness to hear any man, that had aught to say tending to any common good:

How free from all vanity he carried himself in matter of honour and dignity, (as they are esteemed:) his laboriousness and assiduity, his readiness to hear any man, that had aught to say tending to any common good: how generally and impartially he would give every man his due; his skill and knowledge

Miquel Moliner estaba poseído por esa laboriosidad culpable, y aunque respetaba y hasta envidiaba la ociosidad de los demás, huía de ella como de la peste. Lejos de presumir de su ética de trabajo, bromeaba sobre su compulsión productiva y la describía como una forma menor de cobardía. -Mientras se trabaja, uno no le mira a la vida a los ojos