#work

But the truth is, I want to be some woman's work boots, not her high heels." "Work boots?" What was sexy about that? And did women have work boots? "Yeah. You know, the boots she pulls out when she wants to get down and dirty, hiking or gardening or boating or painting the kitchen. The ones she relies on and trusts and lives her life hard and good and on her terms in. Her favorites. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#relationship #work-boots #life

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#finding #like #own #right #soul

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#columbia university #continue #eighteen #graduate #graduate student

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #work #work-life-balance #life

There's a difference between waiting with patient expectation, and waiting because you never know what God will do. If you don't know how God thinks or what God wants to do in your life, read the Bible. When you know what God wants you to do, go out there and do it and see God work his wonderful mission through you. The whole time you thought you were waiting on God, but the whole time God was WAITING ON YOU. ↗

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

#life #purpose #waiting #work #life

Every man lives by exchanging. ↗

— Adam Smith

#exchange #how-life-works #trade #life

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#work #life

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ↗

— Agha Hasan Abedi

#definition #developing #done #getting #management

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#life #work #life

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#good-jobs #jobs #life #work #work-life-balance