- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
- Daily Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
- Eloquently
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
- Nov 07, 2020
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
- Art Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
- Consequently
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- Nov 07, 2020