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I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Theo de Raadt

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When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

Martin Puryear

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I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

Martin Puryear

Work

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig

Work

Character

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.