#work

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. ↗

— Brigham Young

#appreciate #clearly #education #life #power

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#continues #discipline #each #elsewhere #entrusted

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#david #education #embarrassed #foster #gap

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#chair #doing #down #main #main thing

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#both #community #deficit #his #honors

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#again #i #kind #looking #radio

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#basically #believed #cook #cooking #else

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#believed #cooking #else #hard #mother

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#also #forgotten #gods #hopefully #i

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#cases #day #days #drill #fifteen