Job
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this'.
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers — as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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