R. H. Tawney Quotes
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
R. H. Tawney
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
Barry Ritholtz
Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
Fabrizio Moreira
I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
Barbara Kruger
There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
Karl Schroeder
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy
I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose
The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
Mae Jemison
My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
Sally Jewell
As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
Ban Ki-moon
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
Sam Altman
I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.
Paula Hawkins
Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
Flavius Josephus
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock
If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
R. H. Tawney
