“Olhe para o seu trabalho como se um inimigo o tivesse realizado. Se você olha para admirá-lo, está perdido.”
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/nbsb10h.htm (1912); Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting (Um pintor sua opinião sobre Pintura); Improvement in Art
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“Meu trabalho junto aos muçulmanos é comunicar-lhes que os americanos não são inimigos.”

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
"The practise of the presence of God the best rule of a holy life: Brother Lawrence. Being conversations and letters of Nicolas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence). Translated from the French" - Página 20, Lawrence, Joseph de Beaufort - Fleming H. Revell company, 1895 - 63 páginas