job

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
64f375f	Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.	work job	John Kennedy Toole
c3be0cb	Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.	happy work happiness something job	Ilona Andrews
77a4e0f	"You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.	faith hope life job	Nicholas Sparks
92bb2e2	You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is--I wouldn't give twopence for him'-- here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers-- 'whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do.	work enthusiasm job	George Eliot
b7facbe	Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.	life profession job	Dick Francis
a267762	"Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one seemed inclined to question her lack of experience." "Of course not," Leo said acidly. "My family would never bother with something so insignificant as job experience. I'm sure they started the interview by asking what her favorite color was."	romance job	Lisa Kleypas
28333a7	Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.	passion persistence work life knitting georgia job	Kate Jacobs
4a18ec9	This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.	death job child	Cormac McCarthy
f94fe9d	I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.	job promotion	Og Mandino
dc9d254	A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.	occupation situation lifestyle cause-and-effect condition work-ethic circumstances job trade	Frederick Douglass
67238fc	People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.	proactive solution job	Stephen R. Covey
42d84a6	No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.	idolatry job	Joseph Conrad
4541038	Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan...the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in the universe that restoration is under way. Every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.	faith god good-versus-evil job	Philip Yancey
da88a7e	He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.	britney-spears job easy	Erin McCarthy
27f88ef	You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning.	inspirational job	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
563338e	"Devereaux is going with our pitch." "Hey, that's just great," I said superperkily. "Wendell's or mine?" "Yours." "But you want to fire me. So fire me." "We can't fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, 'a great kid, very courageous' and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you had believability." "That's too bad." "Why? You're not quitting!" I thought about it. "Not if you don't want me to. Do you?" Go on, say it. 298 elavanilla "No." "No what?" "No, we don't want you to quit." "Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it." Ariella swallowed. "Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can't green-light charcoal suits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors." "Charcoal suits or I'm gone." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Okay, charcoal." It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not. "Right," I said. "I'm giving myself the rest of the day off."	inspiration job promotion power	Marian Keyes
2f9c15c	Os livros sao escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que nao nos libertam ate serem escritas e, ate mesmo entao, a escrita e o ultimo recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.	work success job question	Richard Bach
b2a1012	Passion does not translate easily into good income.	vocation calling hobby job temperament	Philip Zaleski
6b11c26	So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?	women discrimination job workplace aging	Barbara Delinsky
34d35a0	I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.	work enthusiasm vocation job	Geoff Dyer
f992f15	I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while.	job	Mary Karr
c6d85ed	"The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have university students protesting every few weeks or so... strangely enough, the ones who have parents who rely on that steel mill to pay the bills." "What about the pollution?" Wendy questioned, almost accusingly, as if it was his fault. "What if dangerous chemicals are in the environment?" "Hey kid, I don't even work at the mill, never have, but my father, my uncle, their father, cousins, all worked there," the prints shop man argued, placing the newspapers in a cardboard box and taping it shut. "When it comes down to all that 'go green' crap, you have to ask yourself, is it worth risking a person's income, their job, their family... their life? I'm not saying you're wrong, but these newspapers might have a point."	earth earth-day go-green industry-decline manager print recycle hippie smog newspaper environmentalism shop career green pollution job nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
994dfd4	Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily.	happy fun happiness damaged harass inefficient pay longings monotony slow cry worry rich society job	Jean Rhys
0f42d8d	I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.	women success heart silk dreary drugged sawdust job read	Jean Rhys
0dc7303	"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed."	relaxation vocation job leisure	Robert A. Caro
a7f21d4	If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.	ministry distraction vocation job focus	Barbara W. Tuchman
a1a5b61	I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.	vocation job	Claire Messud
e0e6a48	Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.	peer-pressure job	Barbara W. Tuchman
983b6ca	I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.	writer work life journalism fame job	Mitch Albom
119fb1d	Even his own speeches bored him.	passion enthusiasm vocation charisma job	Barbara W. Tuchman
66fda5f	Verstehst du, im Grunde sind doch die Mitarbeiter das Problem. Du zahlst, wenn du sie einstellst, du zahlst, wenn du sie rausschmeisst, und dazwischen muss du sie auch noch bezahlen.	beruf firma berufsleben satire job	Max Barry
c1ffe74	Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. - Madeleine Albright	leadership stewardship priorities vocation job humility	Walter Isaacson
c7f5050	The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.	location job purpose	Niall Ferguson
a71257d	"The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand."	relationships vocation job	Robert A. Caro
7bb83ba	The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect to get a good job.	passion success skills value job	Cal Newport
cadc2b3	If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.	success value job	Cal Newport
ca9ebca	"-"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."	duty soldier job	David Baldacci
5a96cb7	Yet even in the best of cases, the need to be on call, to spend at least a certain amount of energy looking over one's shoulder, maintaining a false front, never looking too obviously engrossed, the inability to fully collaborate with others --all this lends itself much more to a culture of computer games, YouTube rants, memes, and Twitter controversies than to, say, the rock 'n' roll bands, drug poetry, and experimental theater created under the midcentury welfare state.	work millennials jobs pop-culture job culture working	David Graeber
fb48ac5	Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud.	pretentiousness challenge job miserable	David Graeber
c10fc03	How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII	grace-of-god vocation calling job	Barbara W. Tuchman

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

work job

John Kennedy Toole

c3be0cb

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.

happy work happiness something job

Ilona Andrews

77a4e0f

"You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.

faith hope life job

Nicholas Sparks

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You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that--if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is--I wouldn't give twopence for him'-- here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers-- 'whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do.

work enthusiasm job

George Eliot

b7facbe

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

life profession job

Dick Francis

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"Cat doesn't have to work. She's a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she'd accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one seemed inclined to question her lack of experience." "Of course not," Leo said acidly. "My family would never bother with something so insignificant as job experience. I'm sure they started the interview by asking what her favorite color was."

romance job

Lisa Kleypas

28333a7

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.

passion persistence work life knitting georgia job

Kate Jacobs

4a18ec9

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

death job child

Cormac McCarthy

f94fe9d

I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

job promotion

Og Mandino

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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.

occupation situation lifestyle cause-and-effect condition work-ethic circumstances job trade

Frederick Douglass

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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

proactive solution job

Stephen R. Covey

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No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.

idolatry job

Joseph Conrad

4541038

Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan...the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in the universe that restoration is under way. Every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.

faith god good-versus-evil job

Philip Yancey

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He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.

britney-spears job easy

Erin McCarthy

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You don't even have to love your job; you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning.

inspirational job

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"Devereaux is going with our pitch." "Hey, that's just great," I said superperkily. "Wendell's or mine?" "Yours." "But you want to fire me. So fire me." "We can't fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, 'a great kid, very courageous' and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you had believability." "That's too bad." "Why? You're not quitting!" I thought about it. "Not if you don't want me to. Do you?" Go on, say it. 298 elavanilla "No." "No what?" "No, we don't want you to quit." "Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it." Ariella swallowed. "Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can't green-light charcoal suits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors." "Charcoal suits or I'm gone." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Okay, charcoal." It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not. "Right," I said. "I'm giving myself the rest of the day off."

inspiration job promotion power

Marian Keyes

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Os livros sao escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que nao nos libertam ate serem escritas e, ate mesmo entao, a escrita e o ultimo recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para que a vida nos seja devolvida.

work success job question

Richard Bach

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Passion does not translate easily into good income.

vocation calling hobby job temperament

Philip Zaleski

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So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

women discrimination job workplace aging

Barbara Delinsky

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I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

work enthusiasm vocation job

Geoff Dyer

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I think about the story of Job I heard in Carol Sharp's Sunday school. How he sort of learned to lean into feeling hurt at the end, the way you might lean into a heavy wind that almost winds up supporting you after a while.

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Mary Karr

c6d85ed

"The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. "Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Dangerous As People Say? Well," he exclaimed, glancing at the front photo, which featured the Sydney Steel Corporation, along with its plumes of orange smog. "You know, most people your age are really against that mill, as if it's a disease. We have university students protesting every few weeks or so... strangely enough, the ones who have parents who rely on that steel mill to pay the bills." "What about the pollution?" Wendy questioned, almost accusingly, as if it was his fault. "What if dangerous chemicals are in the environment?" "Hey kid, I don't even work at the mill, never have, but my father, my uncle, their father, cousins, all worked there," the prints shop man argued, placing the newspapers in a cardboard box and taping it shut. "When it comes down to all that 'go green' crap, you have to ask yourself, is it worth risking a person's income, their job, their family... their life? I'm not saying you're wrong, but these newspapers might have a point."

earth earth-day go-green industry-decline manager print recycle hippie smog newspaper environmentalism shop career green pollution job nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

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Well, let's argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month. That's my market value, for I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it. So you have the right to pay me four hundred francs a month, to lodge me in a small, dark room, to clothe me shabbily, to harass me with worry and monotony and unsatisfied longings till you get me to the point when I blush at a look, cry at a word. We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were. Isn't it so, Mr Blank? There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. Some must cry so that the others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

happy fun happiness damaged harass inefficient pay longings monotony slow cry worry rich society job

Jean Rhys

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I had had the job for three weeks. It was dreary. You couldn't read; they didn't like it. I would feel as if I were drugged, sitting there, watching those damned dolls, thinking what a success they would have made of their lives if they had been women. Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.

women success heart silk dreary drugged sawdust job read

Jean Rhys

0dc7303

"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed."

relaxation vocation job leisure

Robert A. Caro

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If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

ministry distraction vocation job focus

Barbara W. Tuchman

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I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

vocation job

Claire Messud

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Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

peer-pressure job

Barbara W. Tuchman

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I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

writer work life journalism fame job

Mitch Albom

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Even his own speeches bored him.

passion enthusiasm vocation charisma job

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Verstehst du, im Grunde sind doch die Mitarbeiter das Problem. Du zahlst, wenn du sie einstellst, du zahlst, wenn du sie rausschmeisst, und dazwischen muss du sie auch noch bezahlen.

beruf firma berufsleben satire job

Max Barry

c1ffe74

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. - Madeleine Albright

leadership stewardship priorities vocation job humility

Walter Isaacson

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The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

location job purpose

Niall Ferguson

a71257d

"The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand."

relationships vocation job

Robert A. Caro

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The things that make a great job great...are rare and valuable. If you want them in your working life, you need something rare and valuable to offer in return In other words, you need to be good at something before you can expect to get a good job.

passion success skills value job

Cal Newport

cadc2b3

If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.

success value job

Cal Newport

ca9ebca

"-"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money." Stone said nothing. -"Why then? God and country?" -"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President." -"What then?" -"So I can look at myself in the mirror."

duty soldier job

David Baldacci

5a96cb7

Yet even in the best of cases, the need to be on call, to spend at least a certain amount of energy looking over one's shoulder, maintaining a false front, never looking too obviously engrossed, the inability to fully collaborate with others --all this lends itself much more to a culture of computer games, YouTube rants, memes, and Twitter controversies than to, say, the rock 'n' roll bands, drug poetry, and experimental theater created under the midcentury welfare state.

work millennials jobs pop-culture job culture working

David Graeber

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Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud.

pretentiousness challenge job miserable

David Graeber

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How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

grace-of-god vocation calling job

Barbara W. Tuchman