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Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I part...

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Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far mor...

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If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll kn...

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around S...

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William S. BurroughsThe Adding Machine: Selected Essays

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in ot...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

You will never climb Career Mountain and get to the top and shout, ‘I made it!’ You will rarely feel...

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Your career and your passion don't always match up.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day w...

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