Home / Quotes / Quote by R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Quote by R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

“So what do you do for a living? I burn the sun, the moon and the stars. Breathe in words, voices, poetry.”

Quote by R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Book:The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

Work

The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

R.M. Engelhardt (TALON)

Browse famous quotes and profile details for R.M. Engelhardt (TALON). more

You May Also Like

“And no matter how hard you work, men always make time to tell their stories.”

Work Storytelling

Author:Victor LaValle

“What strengthens my résumé is more responsibility — not a bigger title.”

Work Business Career

Author:Ron Caoua

“There is money in it, it just settles at the top”

Opportunity Life Quotes Work Progress Hustle Quotes

Author:Reginald L. Russell

“what passed for useful information sharing within an organization was really just bureaucratic phatic of people protecting their position, looking for praise, projecting criticism, setting up positions of non-responsibility for upcoming failures and calamities, that were both entirely predictable, but seemingly completely unavoidable and telling each other what they all already knew. The trick was to be able to reengage quickly and seamlessly without allowing anyone to know that you stopped listening properly, shortly after the speaker had first opened their mouth.”

Quotes Work Organization Bureaucracy Banks Culture Quotes The Culture Iain M Banks Surface Detail

Book:Surface Detail

Source: Surface Detail

“With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.”

Life Work Mistake Astronomy Osha Altitude Toxic Hawaii Hindsight Benefit

Author:Steven Magee

“When DNA shows you've worked more than 10 years with your 2nd cousin once removed, you can't help but see its use in family research.”

Shows Work Family Research Dna Cousin Yearss

Author:Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

Love Truth Friendship Trust Self Discovery

Book:No Man Is an Island

Source: No Man Is an Island

“A crowd of women around me doing the ocean of women’s work that never subsided and never changed and always swallowed whatever time you gave it and wanted more, another hungry body of water. I submerged into it like a ritual bath and let it close over my head gladly.”

Book:Spinning Silver

Source: Spinning Silver

“The work you put in when no one is watching will matter far more than the work you do when the cameras are rolling.”

Work Hard Work Ambition Risks

Book:Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning

Source: Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning

“Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.”

Inspirational Action Work Personal Growth Stagnation Nature Death

Author:Frederick Douglass