“Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.” HeartJoyOpportunityActingBalanceLaborTasksObligationManageRemarkableRacistCompleting Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.” PeopleShouldLife IsSleepBalancePeriodsActivityLaborThirdsEnjoyedDividedIdlenessRecreationRebuildingLife BalanceTime Periods Author:Brigham Young
“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.” IfsHumansFeelingsProcessReligiousPoorSecurityHuman NatureIndustryBalanceLaborWorkersProductionsConvictionCustomersDrivenInventionSavingPoolCompellingDistributionMachinerySavingsUtopia Author:Samuel B. Pettengill
“Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.” SelfEnoughGovernmentForceInterestMilitaryBalanceConflictLaborManagementEnvironmentalDefinitionsChecksOppositionEtcExcessSustainabilityWholenessRestraintSpecializationSelf Restraint Author:Wendell Berry
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.” WorldLifeHumansArtSometimesHardSeemsEarthSpiritualPleasurePracticePathAchieveRocksMaterialsHard WorkWallBalanceGardenLaborStonesExtraordinaryExtremesPeacefulHuman LifeRoughDivisionDividedFragileDelicateAccordReconcileFinding PeaceSpiritual PracticeMaterial WorldPolarizationArtificialityMagical PlacesDisenchanted Author:Thomas Moore
“Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.” HeartBodyProduceBalanceWalkingLaborStrikesRhythmBreathingDelicateClosestArrivals Book:Wanderlust: A History of Walking Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
“Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.” StillsBalanceCostLaborAssumptionMeaninglessSheetsAccountingManualsBalance SheetsManual Labor Author:Peter Drucker
“And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.” HelpingJobsLawOpportunityNationsWealthWhiteBalanceTaxesTrainingLaborWorkersMinoritiesDistributionLiving WageLabor Laws Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.” PeopleCountryEconomyEconomicBalanceBattleArgumentLaborTensionMiddle ClassWorking Class20th Century Author:David Simon
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.” WorldArtistOrderResponsibilityCreationMaterialsCommunicationReturnBalanceLaborContactRealmsWorking ItMysticalIntuitiveSeductiveMaterial World Author:Patti Smith