#work

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. ↗

— David Steinberg

#being #eighty #hours #hundred #lawyer

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#among #believe #conditions #good #had

I never enjoyed working in a film. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#enjoyed #film #i #never #working

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#characterizes #good #intellectual #self-importance #things

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#appreciate #disadvantage #education #elegance #following

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#catching #chaos #days #defends #hands

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#chance #housework #kill #take #take a chance

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together. ↗

— John Dingell

#i #presidents #serve #since #together

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#how #i #just #like #machine