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"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."
"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
Explore more quotes by Brad Holland
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
"Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't."
"Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis."
"Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't."
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