Expended Quotes

“Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.”

“Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.”

“That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised”

“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?”

“The use we make of our fortune determines as to its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely and too much is not enough if expended foolishly.”

“The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.”

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.”

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.”