Claes Oldenburg Quotes

I hated school, but I love work.

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Education and work are the levers to uplift the people.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

Reading maketh a full man.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space.

I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

Drink deeply from good books.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.