- Great Story
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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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to work with young kids.
- Nov 07, 2020
We work. You don't come here to take life easy. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to go into the papal bureaucracy, so I thought of doing a postdoctoral thesis, which they call a 'Habilitation' in German universities, on alchemy in the work of Albert the Great.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day you are up, the next down, and I have to remain calm, work, help, and learn; that is the most important.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020