"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."

-- Jack Adams

#Class Quotes #Yeoman Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.”
“I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.”
“You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?”
“I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.”
“So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world”
“I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.”

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“The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.”
“It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.”

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