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Norman Mailer

"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

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"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do the good work, with the resources you have."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

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Amber Hurdle

"When employees are motivated and love what they do you will see higher productivity, less turnover, healthier communication, increased loyalty, and a happier environment."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

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Amber Hurdle

"The office' is a cemetery of dreams."

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Amber Hurdle

"Those who work, knows the strength of labour."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

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Amber Hurdle

"Extreme night shift work in high altitude astronomy is easily avoidable by using a split night shift where the first night shift starts before sunset and finishes at midnight and the second night shift starts with a new fresh person working through to after sunrise."

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Amber Hurdle

"The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques."

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