Steven Magee quote: I regarded homework as a form of torture

“I always wondered why my coworkers disliked my resignation. It was because those that were left had to do more work!”

Training Resignation Workload Overtime Understaffed Had To Do More Work I Always Wondered Why It Was Because Those That Were Left

Author:Steven Magee

“Le freelance naît le jour où il transforme sa peur en projet”

Inspiration Liberté Freelance

Author:Marcus J. Grey

“I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker. And one of the crucial things he brings to me, is that the encounter with another being is an . . . occasion in which you can, to the best of your ability, honour the other person as being someone sent to you by God.”

Protestant Work Ethic John Calvin Max Weber

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Effort in the Calvinist doctrine had still another psychological meaning. The fact that one did not tire in that unceasing effort and that one succeeded in one's moral as well as one's secular work was a more or less distinct sign of being one of the chosen ones. The irrationality of such compulsive effort is that the activity is not meant to create a desired end but serves to indicate whether or not something will occur which has been determined beforehand, independent of one's own activity or control. This mechanism is a well-known feature of compulsive neurotics. Such persons when afraid of the outcome of an important undertaking may, while awaiting an answer, count the windows of houses or trees on the street. If the number is even, a person feels that things will be alright; if it is uneven, it is a sign that he will fail. Frequently this doubt does not refer to a specific instance but to a person's whole life, and the compulsion to look for "signs" will pervade it accordingly. Often the connection between counting stones, playing solitaire, gambling, and so on, and anxiety and doubt, is not conscious. A person may play solitaire out of a vague feeling of restlessness and only an analysis might uncover the hidden function of his activity: to reveal the future. In Calvinism this meaning of effort was part of the religious doctrine. Originally it referred essentially to moral effort, but later on the emphasis was more and more on effort in one's occupation and on the results of this effort; that is, success or failure in business. Success became the sign of God's grace; failure, the sign of damnation.”

Predestination Ocd Calvinism 1941 Divination Protestant Work Ethic Capitalist Religion

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“I said nothing. I liked to see how little I could contribute in these meetings. My all-time Personal Best was three words, nothing to add, of which I had been inordinately pleased at the time.”

Meetings Office Life Books About Work Quotes About Work Work Meetings

Book:She's a Killer

Source: She's a Killer

“There was a movement at one time, not so many years ago either, which was international in its scope, which had for its object the setting aside the first of May for a general, international holiday, looking ultimately to the inauguration of a short-hour workday, but this grand idea has been side-tracked in later years by a lot of political buncombe and claptrap, thus persuading the working classes into the notion that they can gain their freedom by electing a lot of fellows to office. (1906)”

Voting Holiday Working Class May Day International Labor Day

Author:Lucy Parsons

“May One is a lunch break for workers to return home, drink heavily and return to work the next few hours without being drunk.”

International Labor Day

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Question for job applicants: What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

Leadership Interviewing Jobseeking

Author:Peter Thiel

Quote by Steven Magee

Author

You May Also Like