- People
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn me a bit of cash to go on with my work on 'The Books of Jacob.' I shut myself away for a few months and devoted myself entirely to 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.'
- Foreign Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may sound a bit crazy, but I get really excited with all the enormous hard work that I put myself through every day.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020