Quotes about "Work & Career"

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job. ”

We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. ”

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. ”

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. ”

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters. ”

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible. ”

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you. ”

I've never been the actor who did one job, and everyone went, 'Wow!' ”

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles. ”

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. ”