Important Work Quotes

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the… more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

OpenAI is doing important work by releasing tools which promote AI to be developed in the open. Compute power is largely produced by NVIDIA and Intel and still relatively expensive but openly purchasable. Blockchains may be the key final ingredient by providing massive pools of open training data.

Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I’d do would be with my family.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be ‘American Beauty‘ and very important work.

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public‘s attention to important work in economics.

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

The process of rebuilding state operations – including the important work of fueling job growth – began the day I took office.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the… more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.

If you don’t work on important problems, it’s not likely that you’ll do important work.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

Americans don’t pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren’t sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn’t get anybody‘s pulse racing.

While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.

OpenAI is doing important work by releasing tools which promote AI to be developed in the open. Compute power is largely produced by NVIDIA and Intel and still relatively expensive but openly purchasable. Blockchains may be the key final ingredient by providing massive pools of open training data.

The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners – they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public‘s attention to important work in economics.

Being superintendent or the superintendent’s chief of staff is important work, but there’s no chance it’s as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it’s as important.

I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it – but to really make you think, that is my goal.

I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it – but to really make you think, that is my goal.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Like any doting parent, I believe the most important work we do is the way we bring up our children.

To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

Washington state’s 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it’s going to change or save the world.

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for ‘Newsweek’ on the iPad, although that’s very important work as well.

Intuit’s mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents’ religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it’s going to change or save the world.

Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I’m getting the attention from the young people on social media. It’s been missing.

Basically, a manager‘s job is to make other people more productive. What’s one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be ‘American Beauty‘ and very important work.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

Of course it’s difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.

Of course it’s difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

In our house, Mother’s Day is every day. Father’s Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

‘Watchmen‘ is not only the greatest comic ever written, it’s a really important work of fiction.