- Humanitarian
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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
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
- Solution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm filming 'Dragons' Den', we work flat out until 8pm, although I love seeing the weird, wonderful and plain delusional.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
One way to test a picture's integrity is to turn it upside down - a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you and I go to work, and we use a computer to work and find that our work apps are completely onerous and the apps we use at home are quite easy, we wonder, why can't it be simpler, easier, quicker, and less expensive?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surfing is a life path. You have to really commit... You have to let go and have faith that it's gonna work out when you take off.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
- Exam
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's better to work alone.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020