Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.
The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
