- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work as long as I need to work to do what I need to do.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
- Nov 07, 2020
The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.
- Counterproductive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The country needs the political work of women today as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020