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10 quotes against work
- corentin 19y agoHere's my definition: work is a necessary pain.
- xirium 19y agoI like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. -- Jerome K. Jerome Whenever I get someone watching me performing a task, I quote this. They stop watching shortly after they get the meaning.
- albertcardona 19y agoYou can take a simple decision: don't do anything you don't want to. Just be sure to be aware of the full extent of the consequences. You may be surprised at how many times saying 'no' leads to very nice situations.
- xirium 19y agoThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- Maxims For Revolutionists, 1903 by George Bernard Shaw So, have the courage to say no, especially when it is unreasonable.
- Fuca 19y agoFuck Yeah! Well said all of them.
- edw519 19y ago"For us to work any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good employees who worked cubicle jobs for bum paychecks and surfed the internet, and were bored all day long, were dead. I mean they were slackers. They had no vision. If we wanted something we just coded it. If anyone compiled twice they got 404'd so bad, believe me, they never rolled their own again." — Goodhackers, 2008
- yters 19y agoIt isn't about more or less work. Everything you do is work in some way. It's really about motivation. That's the secret to getting things done.
- NSX2 19y agoMy definition of work: What you do in the meantime for other people who pay you to do it while you're trying to figure out how to arrange your life so you don't have to work. I don't count projects I actually enjoy as work.