W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.”
“Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.”
“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.”
“Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!”
“Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?”
“Workers of the world unite????
How'bout.... Staunch individualists disperse!!!”
“Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.”
“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
“Workers on the 13,796' oxygen deficient summit of Mauna Kea did not use medical oxygen when driving cars to treat the potentially dangerous adverse mental effects of Cerebral Hypoxia.”
“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”
Source: The Working Poor: Invisible in America
“Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.”
“Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.”
“Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.”
“Workers should refuse to work in any environment that depresses their blood oxygen levels below 92% SpO2.”
“Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out.”
“Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.”
“Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”
Source: The Transitional Program & the Struggle for Socialism
“Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.”
“Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.”
“Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.”
“Workfare, not welfare.”
Source: A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
“Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.”
“Workforce planning is the spine of Human Resource Management.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Workhouse NYC offers premium coworking spaces in Manhattan for founders and entrepreneurs. We offer premium private offices, dedicated desks, flexible day passes, meeting rooms, and event spaces all within an exclusive, high-performance community.”
“Workin' so hard every night and day and now we get to lay back.”
“Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.”
“Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.”
Source: Ferret
“Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.”
“Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. I dropped out of college at 21 and my illustration hadn't yet taken off. It is more than working in a store. It is a hard way to make a living but you earn more than in a similarly unskilled job.”
“Working after hours is an illusive and ridiculous way to prove your value.
…not to mention, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.
Stop procrastinating the day so you can pretend to work at night to impress.
It’s not impressive.
Get results and go home early.”
“Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.”
“Working all winter shining all summer”
“Working alone definitely has its advantages. There was no need for second-guessing decisions or discussions on how to work more efficiently. When you’re alone, you have complete control over the project, tackling it the way you think best without worrying about compromising with others. I could fully immerse myself in the task without worrying about others interfering with my creative process. I could work at my own pace, set deadlines, and put one hundred percent of my effort into every detail.”
Source: Four Seasons
“Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.”
Source: Pictures under discussion
“Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'”
“Working and making a fire doth discretion require.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“Working and socializing with international people was prevalent in professional astronomy.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.”
“Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.”
“Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.”
Source: Wallflower at the Orgy
“Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.”
“Working as a manager in the Ivy League was the most demoralizing experience that I ever had in the workplace.”
“Working as a showrunner has made it tougher to watch other shows and movies.”
“Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.”
“Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.”
“Working as a team only allows you to achieve set goals but if you surround yourself with the right companions, you ought to achieve much more...”
“Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.”
“Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.”