Your value to your discipline and trainees and institution is much more about doing your own work than it is about doing what other people want you to do.
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chigau (亀が好きです)
October 24, 2011 at 12:43 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Value” and “Responsibility” are not the same thing.
veganrampage
October 26, 2011 at 2:07 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
He didn’t write they were the same thing! And Great Goddess yes!
This applies when one is a student too. Applicable in multiple situations. This is a real keeper Comrade.
dochopper
October 26, 2011 at 1:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
This seems like an above the water cooler sign at an auto body shop.
had3
October 27, 2011 at 9:23 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
There’s gotta be a demotivational poster with a sewage-treatment worker portraying this quote.
Kaija
November 22, 2011 at 12:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thank you. I needed to hear that this morning as I prepare for another lab day. :)
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