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jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones." Charles Dickens
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
valuable available
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. Charles Frazier
valuable humans human-beings
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings Alfred Marshall
valuable
The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. David Hare
valuable
We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past. John Eaton
valuable tedious ifs
Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it. Alain de Botton
valuable
Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable. Alice Hamilton
valuable
What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.
valuable conclusion draws
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning. Barry McCaffrey
valuable
would have been a valuable contributor to our board. Richard Grasso
indispensable prayerful productive
Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! Edwin Louis Cole
indispensable redundancy expensive
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable. Jane Jacobs
indispensable persons invaluable
In business, there’s such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one. Malcolm Forbes