- Character
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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
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being able to work on a film like 'Crazy Rich Asians' as your first role is phenomenal.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to every single Asian country apart from Myanmar, on work, listening to human interest stories, giving me a broad outlook on all Asian cultures.
- Fervent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
- Flowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large amount of constant activity will get things going. For example, training in the morning will have everything, all the juices flowing by the time you actually get to work. So, when you're at work, you've been already up for an hour or so or two hours, and you're raring to go where everyone else is still wiping sleep out of their eyes.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work out two, two and a half hours a day. For 'Immortals,' it was body-weight stuff: crunches, pullups, and martial arts-based cardio.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as long as I'm in this line of work, I'm always going to be mentioned when Celtic are looking for a new manager.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I am involved in football and doing this work, I am going to be connected to Celtic.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020