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"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."
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Personal Development
"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
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Personal Development
"If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday."
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Personal Development
"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in."
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Personal Development
"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
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Personal Development
"Employment will fail you someday."
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Personal Development
"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
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Personal Development
"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."
Language
"You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship."
Friendship
"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."
Poetry
"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."
Poetry
"I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years."
Reading
"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."
Work
"My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system."
Medical
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative."
Architecture
"I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then."
Living
"There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something."
Being
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