"A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to."

-- Alain de Botton

#Jobs Quotes #Work Quotes #Not Good Enough Quotes

“People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.”
“I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.”
“Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.”
“So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?”
“In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.”

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“Sometimes it is hard because my schedule is crazy. I am homeschooled, so my school travels with me.”

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“I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.”
“The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.”

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