- Ethic
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll drop something for a while, a year or maybe several years, and then pick it up again. I think that's the way successful innovators work. They keep juggling ideas, keeping them in the air, in the back of their mind, to inspire them or enable new recombinations.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the device. But to take full advantage of nano, we're going to have to think about that full hierarchy of levels of structure.
- Sympathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
- Manager
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020