- Men
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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
- Dalai
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.
- Graduate Students
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- Nov 07, 2020