“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
Work takes up most of your waking hours, which is why it matters whether you find meaning in it. These quotes cover careers, hustle, burnout, passion, and the search for a balance between making a living and making a life.
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
“One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.”
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”
“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”
“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”
“I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.”
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”
“Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.”
“Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
“I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.”
“I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.”