“I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWellsArtPhilosophyJobsUniverseLevelsPureScientistFundamentalsCosmosWhere You AreAesthetics Author:Brian Schmidt
“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.” RealityJobsPresidentCommunityHoursAchievementOrganizationFundamentalsMajorityWorkersVicesEightAccessFulfillmentOur SocietyExecutivesVice PresidentSweepers Author:Peter Drucker
“Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.” PeopleWantJobsLawFightingSocialJusticeMillionsRightsFairsElectionSocial JusticeFundamentalsPressesRussiaLike MeRule Of LawNew JobFree PressFundamental Rights Author:Garry Kasparov
“There are the fundamental core values of the Democratic Party, which is to work to grow the economy, to create jobs, to encourage small business, to encourage ownership, to expand access to quality health care, to enhance opportunity by making higher education more affordable to American's young people, to have our children live in safe neighborhoods, drug-free, crime-free, and a safe and clean environment, first and foremost to provide for the national defense, to protect and defend the American people, and to have accountability for our budget and for our spending.” PeopleFirstsChildrenCareJobsYoungValuesOpportunityGrowsPartyQualityEconomyEnvironmentCrimeHigherDrugProtectSafeOur ChildrenFundamentalsCleanDemocraticSpendingDefenseAccessCoreHealth CareBudgetsNeighborhoodAccountabilityOwnershipSmall BusinessDemocratic PartyAffordableHigher EducationCore ValuesNational DefenseQuality Health CareDrug Free Author:Nancy Pelosi
“My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.” MayI CanIdeasJobsQualityRolesUniqueFundamentalsAddInterpreter Author:Kevin Spacey
“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.” MenWayWantFeelsBelieveLongIdeasSelfEarthTogetherJobsSocialGrowsUnderstandingBehindsLeaderPathFeminismHugeInvolvedDiseaseMen And WomenEmpowermentFundamentalsEvolvePatriarchyWant UPeace On EarthSelf EmpowermentImbalanceReally LongUndoing Author:Ani DiFranco
“These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: "What do you do?" is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.” IfsFirstsSelfSeemsJobsAsksPartyPersonalityFundamentalsBoundsThese DaysTitlesBossJob Titles Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman argued that no matter how wise the officials of government may be, market competition does a better job of protecting us from idiots.” MayDoeMatterProblemGovernmentJobsPoliticalEconomyWiseLimitsFundamentalsCompetitionInsightIdiotOfficialsBetter JobsMiltonPolitical Economy Author:Arnold Kling
“The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?” PeopleYearsCareJobsFightingDecisionClassRichEnvironmentGrowingEconomicMiddleProtectRaisesFundamentalsHealth CareMiddle ClassAgendasGapsProgressiveDeclineWagesProtect The Environment Author:Bernie Sanders
“Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.” IfsWritingProblemJobsAsksTeamFundamentalsExecutivesEditingEdits Author:Jack Dorsey
“The other financial genius, John McCain, said the fundamentals of our economy are strong, and then yesterday he wanted to fire the head of the SEC -- except you can't as president fire the SEC chairman, it's a non-governmental job. Sarah Palin said today one more gaffe from McCain, and she's going to drop him from the ticket.” SaidTodayWantedJobsStrongPresidentEconomyFireGeniusFundamentalsFinancialYesterdayTicketsChairmanMccainPalin Author:Bill Maher
“I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same.” ThinkingTryingLooksJobsProcessCan DoMirrorsFundamentalsBetter Jobs Author:Bill Belichick
“I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.” KnowsWorldFeelsTryingWellsDoeSelfUseMightWould BeJobsLanguageGivenSocialSexWonderFundamentalsFirmReportsVocabularySubjectiveInnateSense Of SelfUnchangingUnchangeableUnclear Author:Judith Butler
“Back when I played, basketball was all about fundamentals, about hustling, getting those loose balls, all those rebounds under the basket. That equals up to 12, 14, 16 points. You can lose a game with that much. It's different watching basketball now. People don't play the same way. It doesn't matter if you score, if you can't stop the other team from scoring. Our coach used to kick our ass if we didn't. I was told if you saw more of the other team color under the basket than your own team color, you ain't doing your job. Everybody should be under the board, trying to get that ball.” PeopleIfsWayShouldTryingDifferentMatterPlayJobsUsedGamesLosesSawsTeamColorBasketballBallsFundamentalsCoachesAssBoardsKicksScoreHustleBasketsBack WhenRebound Author:Leslie Jones
“I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.” PeopleShowsFeelingsJobsPerspectiveConversationApproachFundamentalsSmashing Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“You still need to understand what your fundamental and primary jobs are you have to make sure that you execute those before you can really dabble into something else.” NeedsStillsJobsFundamentalsPrimaries Author:Tye Sheridan
“The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.” InspirationalJobsFallGamesMinutesEthicsFundamentalsBottomTechniquePreparationGet AwayNbaWork EthicCore ValuesSchoolwork Author:Michael Jordan
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.” PeopleActionJobsProcessClearEffectsParticularNeededTerribleMoralityAuthorityStandardsOrdinaryResourcesFundamentalsAgentsObedienceDestructiveOrdinary PeopleHostilityObedience To Authority Author:Stanley Milgram
“How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.” PeopleIfsLoveTryingDoneWisdomRealityJobsJoySpiritAsksMeditationConditionsAwarenessYogaFundamentalsWellnessWhere You Are Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.” DoeJobsScienceQualityInformationHard WorkSourceTasksUltimateFundamentalsParadoxVariationRegulators Author:Gerald Weinberg
“We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.” InspirationalMotivationalKidsJobsValuesTeachHealthyFundamentalsSuicideWell BeingSuicidal ThoughtsBetter JobsGood Values Author:Bobby Orr
“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.” ThinkingWayPersonsJobsEducationPovertyRichSolutionsFundamentalsEducationalEducatedEducateProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemEnding PovertyEducation And LiteracyEducated PersonSolutions To Poverty Author:Kathleen Blanco