- Language
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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
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
- Assembly Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
- Get A Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to get a real film industry started in Washington. An actual one, not where features come to town and shoot second unit for a few days. I would love to get something started here. Hire local crews. People could work year-round and raise their families here.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020