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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.
stewardship temporary
Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable! Andy Stanley
stewardship behinds
Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind John C. Maxwell
stewardship stewards all-things
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. John Calvin
stewardship good-work
In our good works nothing is our own.
stewardship tested
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
stewardship force should
Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them? Lauryn Hill
stewardship multitudes
I am large, I contain multitudes Walt Whitman
stewardship
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. W. H. Auden
mechanic conviction should
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mechanics until
We want him completely healthy, and we want his mechanics sound. Until that happens, he won't pitch. Bryan Price
mechanic focused
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. Barry Zito
mechanical plane sat seattle sent waited
The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.
mechanic mere poetry tune
Made poetry a mere mechanic art; / And every warbler has his tune by heart. William Cowper
mechanics smart
She's amazing. She locates well, and her mechanics are unbelievable. She's a smart pitcher.
mechanics simple
I don't know what adjustments I could make. My mechanics to me are about as simple as you could get. Mark Prior
mechanics movement today wild
He's going to be a little wild anyway, because he had such movement on his fastball, but today his mechanics were off, so it was really flying. Mike Lieberthal
mechanics taught
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel. Alan Furst