- 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
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020