"Careerism is the determination to reign in hell……" — Hugh Nibley
"Careerism is the determination to reign in hell rather than serve in heaven."
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34 Quotes by Hugh Nibley
Hugh Nibley has 34 quotes on this site.
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The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on…
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You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
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Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of…
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and…
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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.
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Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.
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The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void…
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As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority…
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Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.
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No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the…
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Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your…
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Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.
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More Careerism Quotes
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In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims…
— Glenn Greenwald
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Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's…
— Bell Hooks
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Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.
— David Shi
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It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right…
— Michael Medved
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond…
— Joan Didion
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