- 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
- Four-Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people; you want to work with classy people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what your job is, you know that you need to have a routine, that you need to be disciplined, you need to work.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad traveled so much for work that, when he was home, we always wanted to spend as much time with him as we could, so going to practices and doing stuff like that with him took precedence over Saturday morning cartoons. We'd go to practice with my dad just so we could be a part of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020