Quotes 81 till 100 of 1709.
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samÄdhi.
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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A translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
Source: The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
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A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
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