- Hard Work
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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
- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!
- Bitterness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk about our kids at work. We're afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we're somehow going to be diminished.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of why daycare is so poorly paid is because the sense that they're prisoners of love, that daycare workers love their work so much that they don't need to be paid fairly. It's this sense of, 'Oh well, labor and love are two different things.'
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.
- Heart Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Agreements five years later would have happened. His achievements over detente, the seeds of trust he sowed in a very distrustful and hostile Moscow, helped over a long period.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020