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“Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

People Way Self Spirit Enjoy Born Work Demand Determination Tasks Function Self Determination Entrepreneurial Mindless Dice Entrepreneurial Spirit Daily Tasks

Book:The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

Should Wells Turns Work Known Months Office Six Letters Should Have Function Track Chiefs Six Months Turn-on Should Have Known Memos

Author:Jilly Cooper

“What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.”

People Humans Important Hands Individual Work Responsibility Careers Skills Connections Function Possession Reputation Firm Networking Organizational

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do.”

Persons Jobs Work Higher Function Managers Titles

Book:Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder

Source: Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder

“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”

Should May Stills States Death Work Garden Function Agree Indifferent Find Me Unfinished Cabbage

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.”

Mean Values Work Boys Doubt Century Fine Function Library Denial Suspects New Orleans Employers Babe Loathe Public Library Good Education Fear Me

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.”

Men World Work Secret Machines Function Structure Woods Invention Iron Inventor Hints Leather Inventing Anatomy Adapting Inventions And Inventors

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.”

Work Function Chaos Noise Recreation

Author:Vangelis