- Control
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most important for the circadian field was the pioneering work of Ron Konopka in Seymour's lab.
- Comfortable Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't start quite at the beginning... but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their new life in the U.S.A. A one sentence summary of these events is that after some years of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not comfortable life for themselves and their two children.
- Clock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.
- Succeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020