quotes about Routine Work

last updated: November 28, 2023

You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.
-- Charles E. Bohlen

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Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
-- Richard Overy

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“I think I'm a focus for international attention.”
“I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but no limits. But you let people decide.The other is just have a national public system.”
“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

Source : Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.27, Penguin
“When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.”
“Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization that you have to find it a little bit and then kind of clump around and sniff it out.”

Source : "Ron Livingston Talks the Conjuring, Why He Got Involved, Meeting His Real-life Counterpart, Building Chemistry With His Film Family and the Immersive Set". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. June 26, 2013.
“Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.20, The Forlorn Press
“There is no real ending. Itâ€™s just the place where you stop the story.”
“Grace changes us and change is painful".”