Top 26 Quotes About Careerism
#1. There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
Richard Diaz
#2. Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
David Shi
#3. There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.
Astra Taylor
#4. I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
Richard Eyre
#5. Young people cannot contribute to the betterment of society if they are
constantly focusing on how to improve their own position.
Eraldo Banovac
#8. he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold
Mark Twain
#9. Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#10. Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.
Joan Didion
#11. Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.
Tom Coburn
#12. I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it.
Giacomo Casanova
#13. Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism.
Bell Hooks
#14. It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.
Michael Medved
#15. Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
Robert Graves
#16. Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.
Edward R. Tufte
#17. A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.
Bill Nighy
#18. What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.
Tom Coburn
#19. Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
#20. The so-called spirituality that was handed to me by those who put me to the task of pastoral work was not adequate. I do not find the emaciated, exhausted spirituality of institutional careerism adequate. I do not find the veneered, cosmetic spirituality of personal charisma adequate.
Eugene H. Peterson
#21. Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."
Tom Coburn
#22. However great the challenge, it's easier to overcome with a decent meal inside of you.
Walter Moers
#23. The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#24. His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft.
Thomas Pynchon
#25. In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn about the world around them, develop a sense of civic and social responsibility, and discover how they can contribute to the common good?
Ernest L. Boyer
#26. Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven.
Hugh Nibley
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