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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
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
- Educations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
- Graduate Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020