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“Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

tags: career, georgia, job, knitting, life, passion, persistence, work

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“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. ”
― Rick Jarow, The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World

tags: career

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“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bias, class, discernment, disrespect, equality, geniune, human-being, person, rank, respect, righteous, status, stereotype, title

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“Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

tags: career, limitations, success, vocation

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