Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, crushed humans in crushed uniforms, sluggish, unshaven, in their thirties or forties or fifties but still "boys." But that is your fate if you do your job well - with honesty, dedication, and sincerity, the way Gandhi would have done it, no doubt.
Aravind AdigaTag: gandhi work-ethic
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
James DashnerTag: work-ethic
...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.
John D. MacDonaldTag: quality work-ethic thoroughness
The notion that women shouldn't care about personal success -- or the work that gets them there -- is disengenuous; it is impossible for women not to have jobs anymore, so it doesn't make sense to expect them to structure their lives around getting married. The real failure is our cultural incapacity to make room for women to live and thrive outside of traditional conceptions of femininity and relationships. After all, we can eat without marriage, but not without work.
Samhita MukhopadhyayTag: marriage independence dating work-ethic independent-women
Occasionally I ponder all the things I'd have time to notice if I had more free time.
S. Kelley HarrellTag: work-ethic
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
Jeannette WallsTag: work-ethic
These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
Tahir ShahTag: challenge work-ethic
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
Anthony KiedisTag: work grave work-ethic
We do what we have to so we can do what we want to
James FarmerTag: studying work-ethic
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)
Tag: writing basketball baseball sports professionalism work-ethic david-halberstam julius-erving
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