“Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.”— Peter Straub Related Quotes “Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”— Robert Orben “To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”— Leo Tolstoy “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”– Calvin Coolidge