Quotes about work
work workers objects
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object. Karl Marx
work workers products
The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.
work machines palaces
Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.
work men law
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.
work philosophical technology
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
work food silly
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. Julia Child
work creativity spirituality
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity. Julia Cameron
work block addiction
Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.
work two get-back
It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it. Judith Guest
work moving quota
Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota. Patti Smith
work names bob
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it. P. G. Wodehouse
work done
You put aside the work that's done, and seek some work to do. Ovid
workout boys july
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up. Paul Engle
work self limits
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit. Matthew Fox
work enough-time economic
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. Paul Hawken
work differences half
Work only a half a day. It makes no difference which half-the first 12 hours or the last 12 hours. Kemmons Wilson
work believe passion
I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees. Katherine Mansfield
work delight infinite
To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
work dark done
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark. Julia Ward Howe
work compassion vocabulary
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others. Krista Tippett
work thinking next-week
"I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know." Kim Clijsters
workout pregnancy exercise
I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being. Keri Russell
work law cash
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too. Mark Twain
work preaching worth-it
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
work ruins interest
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
work intellectual society
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
work important matter
The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.
work organization surveillance
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.
work annoyed wages
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
work envy realization
Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.
work mean relief
Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.
work-out rebellion obsolete
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out. Mark Mothersbaugh
work
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. Marilyn Monroe