- 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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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
- Nov 07, 2020
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.
- Good Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
- Frenchman
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020