- Everything
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my parents, Morris and Helen, I give thanks for the gift of life, the vehicle for the expression of my work, and for your continued full and unequivocal support from both sides of the physical plane.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked hard my whole life, since I was a little kid. But now it's a point in my life now where I can just enjoy it, but at the same time I still need to work.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020