Sue Anderson
speaker
807 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Sue Anderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Flowers and leaves and buds because you love them.
Glass because you love it.
It is not that you are to despise either fame or wealth, honestly acquired both are good.
But you must bear in mind that the pursuit of these separately is
By any other means than perfecting your work I
Is a thing requiring great outlay of time for
And you cannot afford to withdraw any time from your work in order to acquire them.
In these days and in our huge cities, there are so many avenues open to celebrity that
Through society, the press, exhibition, and so forth.
That a man once led to spend time on them?
is in danger of finding half his working life run away with by them.
Before he is aware.
While even if they are successful, the success won by them must be
Is a poor thing compared to that which might have been earned by the workers
which was sacrificed for them.
It becomes almost a profession in itself to keep oneself notorious.
To spend large slices out of one's time in the mere putting forward of one's work, showing it apart from doing it, necessary as this sometimes is, is a thing to be done grudgingly.
Still more so should one grudge to be called from one's work here, there and everywhere to
by the social claims which crowd round the position of a public man.
There are strenuous things enough for you in the work itself without wasting your strength on these.
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