- 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.
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- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In tech, you create the foundation; even sometimes if it doesn't work, you take that same developmental idea, and you use it to apply to a different area.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a weirdo, a wacko, or an eccentric for wanting to do good, honest work on a day-to-day basis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020