#work

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #every #every time #go #got

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. ↗

— Bruce Grocott

#i #kept #long #more #opinion

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#any #brain #dna #genes #material

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#became #because #complicated #experimentation #more

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#anything #been #boss #charge #did

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#editing #i #jobs #kinds #mostly

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#been #business #i #important #important thing

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#care #how #many #movie #movie stars

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#building #chrysler #ever #five #furniture