- Life
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a while I thought I would work in museums, so my first job after college was an internship at the 9/11 Museum. I quickly found out that I did not want to do that. So I signed up for culinary school, and directly following culinary school, I went to graduate school at McGill.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always just operated with the attitude that if I work just as hard as I can, everything will be fine.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking has always been work.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking for a crowd during the holidays takes a lot of time and effort, so we understand the desire to outsource as much of the work as possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that's the goal.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
- Deputy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020