In his letter to brother Theo, from Brussels, Belgium (January 1881, letter 140); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 19 <br class="br">being art student in Brussels <br class="br">1880s, 1881
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
Messrs. Lever’s New Soap Works, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Full Reports of the Ceremony of Cutting the First Sod, and Proceedings at the Inaugural Banquet, 1888, pp.28-29; Cited in: Viscount William Hulme Lever Leverhulme, William Hulme Lever Leverhulme (2d viscount) (1927). Viscount Leverhulme, p. 49
“Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Source: Work Without Hope (1825), l. 9.
Context: Bloom, O ye Amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) American geographer
Source: The Look of Maps (1952), p. vii
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Annotation: It's unclear, whether this quote is from Hanyu himself or based on a commercial script, but it's commonly attributed to him.
Original: (ja) できなかったら、できるまでやる。できるようになったら、完璧にできるまでやる。完璧にできるようになったら、何度でも、完璧にできるまでやる。
Source: Attributed, Lines from a TV commercial for 味の素 アミノバイタル (AJINOMOTO amino VITAL), released on 1 October 2014, as quoted in フィギュアスケート14-15シーズン序盤号, published on 15 November 2014 by 日刊スポーツ新聞社 (Nikkan Sports News).
“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 248
The Book of Disquiet
Original: E seja o nosso desprezo para os que trabalham e lutam e o nosso ódio para os que esperam e confiam.
Jon Voight (1938) American actor
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky congratulating Voight on his June 2009 speech at a Republican fundraiser. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aFfk5skijH5s
Tessa Thompson (1983) American actresse
On turning down the roles Hollywood was offering to her in “Tessa Thompson: ‘I decided not to work until I burned for something’” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/16/tessa-thompson-interview-decided-not-to-work-until-i-burned-for-something in The Guardian (2018 Feb 16)
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
