The Kama Sutra of Work Quotes

“You can, you MUST, design the life you want.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“Your bad shit will make you. If you can grasp that early enough on, you might start to welcome challenges and adversity for what they give you in the long run.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“You have the opportunity to create yourself.

Screw ‘finding yourself’. I know of people who choose to do nothing every day and then go off on retreat to ‘find themselves’.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“I am, admittedly, from the school of telling the brutal truth, but I apply that to myself too. When something happens and I ask for other people’s opinion on it, I want them to tell me the truth. Because I don’t want to be here again, experiencing this pain.

It’s called being a grown up. I recommend it.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“We can ask men out, initiate sex, refuse sex, be adventurous and propose marriage — all without raising an eyebrow. We can dress as we want and do what we want.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“You may think you simply can’t deal with ONE MORE FUCKING THING going wrong.

You’re wrong. You can and you WILL deal with each and every thing that life will throw at you.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“[...] you can practise being on top in all sorts of ways first. Tackle the unordered dish that just appeared on your restaurant bill. Send back the inferior pudding. (I assume there is such a thing as an inferior pudding?) Don’t be chicken about going out on your own at night (and yes, be safe, but this is a very safe country so don’t become a prisoner of Daily Mail hysteria).”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“To get confident, you have to act like it first. Stand upright, chin up, make your gestures expansive, take up some room, breathe deeply and easily, lower your voice in tone and increase its energy and volume.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“[...] confident women are gob-smackingly amazing.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“Sometimes, even when you don’t fancy it, you need to just have a go. Because you get in the mood by getting in the mood, and once you’re in the mood…”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“People will pay you what you think you’re worth, not just what they think you’re worth.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“Money is not dirty. Money is utterly without a value system.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“Never, ever settle for the propaganda that says mediocre is fine, average is acceptable, coasting is good.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“You see, work is very, very important to women. It gives us independence, security and freedom. It’s often in work that we find our self-confidence and self-esteem. In practical terms, we need to be able to work to cope with life and all it throws at us. It helps us find our talents, grow our skills, and give ourselves pleasure.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough

“Sex is fun and playful and meaningful and messy and tender and funny and life-enhancing and excruciatingly embarrassing — sometimes all at once.”
― Avril Millar, The Kama Sutra of Work: Why Work is the New Sex and How to Make Sure You're Getting Enough