There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.
You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.
If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.
