Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

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"Work becomes noble when it serves a purpose greater than itself."
Law, John
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"Work that lacks purpose is merely labor; work with purpose is vocation."
Law, John
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"Work becomes meaningful when it serves something greater than ourselves."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Work is how we contribute our gifts to the world."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Labor is always material and embodied; there is no disembodied knowledge."
Haraway, Donna
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"Work is where we express our creativity and values."
Callon, Michel
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"The most important work is often invisible and undervalued."
Callon, Michel
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Law, John
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"Work is love made visible."
Law, John
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"The coordination of care requires coordination of bodies, technologies, and social relations."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The coordination of care is the coordination of ontologies, of different ways of being and becoming."
Mol, Annemarie
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"We are running faster and faster on a treadmill that never stops."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Work that lacks meaning accelerates our alienation."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"Work without meaning is the deepest form of modern suffering."
Hartmut, Rosa
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"We must stay committed to the material world and its transformations."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must work for justice by attending to material conditions and consequences."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must attend to the work that goes into maintaining social order."
Callon, Michel
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"The economy is not a thing; it is a heterogeneous assemblage of practices."
Callon, Michel
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"The work of organizing is never finished; it is perpetually in process."
Callon, Michel
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"Coordination requires constant work and negotiation among heterogeneous elements."
Callon, Michel
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"The economy is not a separate domain but woven into the fabric of society."
Callon, Michel
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"The economy emerges through the translation and coordination of diverse interests."
Callon, Michel
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"Labour is the foundation of all value."
Law, John
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"Nature rewards the industrious."
Law, John
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"Labor ennobles the character."
Law, John
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"Work gives life meaning."
Law, John
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"The workplace must be a place where we can bring our whole selves."
hooks, bell
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"We are more than our productivity."
hooks, bell
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"The work of justice never ends."
Davis, Angela
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"The economy is embedded in networks of power and meaning"
Callon, Michel