Michael Pollan Quotes

Either Men or Women that have a Trade, or are Labourers, can, if industrious, get near three times the Wages they commonly earn in EngIand.

High earnings in one craft attract others to it…

I liked my old job better.

When you spend a lot of time in your job, you realize you're just selling your time in exchange for money.

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out of the workforce. There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I'm not looking for a paycheck.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

I want to work and be happy.

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

Working is living to me.

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.