“We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.” WayNeedsCertainPayTakenPeriodsEqualModelsAdvantageStriveProductionsEmploymentBridgesTemporaryContractsIntroducingPhasesWagesFlexibilityEmployersPrecariousEqual PayTaken Advantage Author:Martin Schulz
“I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsTryingBodyAmericaLostPerfectInspireFitStriveOwnershipLost Hope Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.” WantTryingLittlesDoeBitsLittle BitHarderStriveSomething Better Author:George Harrison
“We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.” DoneEnoughVoiceWhiteHavensDirectorsHollywoodStriveMalesMinorities Author:Jordan Peele
“Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.” TryingPersonsWholeCoursesStriveGenderAttractionJust OneHorizonWisestOrientationWhole Person Author:Lance B. Wickman
“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.” PeopleIfsShouldMayChildrenHelpingCompassionSeeingTalentStriveGenderIntellectAttractionSettingSettingsAthleticsChild Of God Author:Lance B. Wickman
“Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and going to work, preparing, using our ambition, and, in that process, some people earned more and earned it sooner than others.” PeopleRealHardUsedProcessAmbitionStriveIncomeInequalityPreparingGoing To WorkGet AheadIncome Inequality Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most of my life, everybody made more money than I did at the places I worked. In fact, when I've been an employee, I have never been anywhere close to being the highest paid person there, never. I was working hard. I was working hard. I was doing things I didn't want to do, that I thought I should do. I was getting up every day, going to work, did not phone in sick. Striving. Trying to get ahead, you know, doing what Obama says, working hard and applying myself and trying to get ahead. There was always somebody, there were always a lot of people that earned more than I did.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldTryingPersonsMadeHardFactsHighestSickPaidStrivePhonesEmployeeMore MoneyGoing To WorkGet Ahead Author:Rush Limbaugh
“One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable him to bid more effectively for a house in a better school district. But if other workers did likewise, none would achieve the goal they were striving for.” IfsReasonMightWould BeSchoolJobsHouseGoalPayAcceptingAchieveExampleHigherStriveWorkersSchool Districts Author:Robert H. Frank
“One important thing I take away daily is that for all the talk about what youth are not doing - especially young people of color - I know there are many who do care about their future, who are striving to affect their world in a positive way.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayImportantCareYoungYouthColorImportant ThingsStrive Author:Renee Watson
“If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus on euphoros, the Greek word for "the bearer of goodness," you will be inhabited by the divine source of life.” IfsHumansHappensHuman BeingsFocusDivineSourceGoodnessStriveGreekElusiveSource Of Life Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience.” KnowsShouldFirstsMayEasyUnderstandingSimpleTeachWalkingSightStriveScriptureObedienceTrust In GodKnowing GodWalk By Faith Author:Craig Groeschel
“I would let my fans and people looking from the outside looking in dictate that. But, in my mind I gotta treat myself like I'm the best and gotta strive to be better than what I am. So of course my work ethic and the way I think as a person and an artist I'll feel that way. But on a boasting level, you would never hear that come out my mouth.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsMindPersonsArtistCoursesLevelsFansMouthsEthicsTreatsStriveWork EthicBoastOutside Looking In Author:Lil Herb
“We are involved in a historic restructuring of the world economy. Virtually every country that matters has been striving to pursue the same economic model, and has bought into a set of market-based principles that has brought new players on the stage and new markets. We have to take full advantage.” WorldHas BeensCountryMatterPrinciplesEconomyPlayerEconomicStageInvolvedModelsAdvantageStrivePursueHistoricWorld EconomyRestructuringEconomic Models Author:Chris Alexander
“There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing. You listen to people who have finished and nothing replaces playing, but I'm still excited about not having to put my body through what I've put it through. And not feeling the disappointment that I feel.” PeopleFeelsStillsFeelingsBodyNextCareersFootballStriveDisappointmentExcitedFinishedCompletion Author:Ryan Giggs
“I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.” IfsKnowsWritingI CanLanguageEnjoySoundPerfectModernEarsStriveSentencesListenersBroadwayModern LifeBroadway Musical Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.” FirstsLeaderJudgmentStriveSmarter Author:Warren G. Bennis
“I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanPersonsSelfUseDifficultTakenConditionsIgnorancePrideIntellectualStriveNotionNobleElitesNow And ThenImprovingImpatienceIntellectual LifeMean Person Author:George Saunders
“That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out.” IfsWantGivingStriveStudiosExpectingYou Like It Author:Willie Taylor
“A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch, he will hanker for an Apple watch. The endless cycle of wanting, getting, and wanting again is part of the plot of Capitalism. It is the way Capitalism creates jobs. The only antidote is Buddhism that holds that people might be happier by renouncing desire rather than by striving to satisfy desire. But then how can the economy create enough jobs in a Buddhist society of "less is more."” PeopleWayPersonsEnoughMightJobsDesireWatchesEconomyBuddhismCapitalismStriveEndlessBuddhistApplesBuyingPlotCyclesAntidoteLess Is MoreApple Watch Author:Philip Kotler
“If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day have the ideal that I want my work to be not too expensive, so that if people buy it and break it, it's not going to be the end of the world. I'm not interested in having things in museums, although some of our work has ended up there, but that's not what I'm striving for.” PeopleIfsWorldWantEndsBreakIdealsPressesStriveWheelsExpensiveThis DayMuseumsPotNot InterestedEnd Of The WorldMoldSlabs Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I'm striving to make things which are the most exciting things I can make that will fit in people's homes. And in that respect, working on the wheel is economically about the only answer I know, because one can, as Leach said, make 50 pots in a day. You can make 100 pots in a day. A really good potter can make 400 pots in a day.” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanHomeAnswersFitExcitingStriveWheelsPotPottersExciting Things Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.” WantOpportunityReligiousRaceColorDrinkLimitsAbsolutesStriveConvictionCreedsExhilaratingDregs Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“What we get from all religions especially from the Prophet's life, peace be upon him, is that there is no way to reach peace if we are not ready to sacrifice, not ready to strive, not courageous enough to face the powers here and the dictators who don't care about humanity or human life.” IfsWayHumansEnoughCareFacesHumanitySacrificeReadyStriveDon't CareHuman LifeProphetCourageousDictatorNot Ready Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.” WayGivingWellsEndsReadingMy OwnGive MeStriveTangibleExitReceiptsTactileReading Experience Author:Allison Joseph
“I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. I don't even know what they are. Because I sense from a distance that I don't want to know. And therefore even if I had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. Which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantWritingSchoolReligiousViewsModernDistanceStriveCome UpPoint Of ViewIronicSensibilityCowardlyDetachedNihilist Author:Mark Helprin
“The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours. I am in favor of a multi-polar world in which France once again takes its position as the leader of non-aligned states, not with the US, not with Russia and not with Germany. One should strive to be neither slave nor master.” WorldShouldTryingStatesInterestLeaderInfluencePositionMastersEuropeSlaveStriveFavorsRussiaFranceGermany Author:Marine Le Pen
“Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health. Because how are you going to do all that marching if you are not in good health?” IfsSpiritualStriveGood HealthGood Spiritual Author:Alveda King
“I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film and I think I am growing with each movie. And I think it's important because you need to strive to better yourself.” ThinkingNeedsTryingImportantFilmNextGrowingSittingStriveFilmmakerBetter Yourself Author:James Wan
“I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar, artwork, and stained-glass windows. Together they create an environment conducive to worship and contemplation. We are not in church for entertainment, but to worship.” ThinkingGivingTogetherBeautifulChurchEnvironmentBuildingWorshipMusic IsWindowStriveContemplation Author:Dave Brubeck
“I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.” PeopleBelieveHeartArtI BelieveForeverArt IsStrive Author:Yayoi Kusama
“To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.” WorldStriveAuthenticity Author:Christine Ebersole
“If you expect to be successful and you expect to raise a family while having a career then you will strive for that; if you strive for it then hopefully you will achieve it. So I think for my own daughter, she's going to grow up with a working mom. One that has had to make some painful choices and face some painful realities.” ThinkingRealityChoicesGrowing UpSuccessfulAchieveMomDaughterStrivePainfulHopefullyBeing SuccessfulWorking Mom Author:Sarah Treem
“I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value.” MindValuesHateFailingChangedStriveI RealizedStop Hating Author:Lindy West
“I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.” SpeakStriveStrifeBetter PersonLife Worth Living Author:Massimo Pigliucci
“I honestly feel, that difficult periods can be used as a means for radical rethinking and reconnection with some of the fundamental qualities that have made human societies and communities worthwhile and valuable. We all just need to strive towards these new ways of being.” MeanDifficultCommunityQualityStriveValuableHonestlyRadical Author:Lawrence English
“Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.” PeopleHeartTogetherCommonPathRichUniqueStriveHistoricCommon Good Author:Jim Hightower
“For me, I don't really feel like I have any particular main influences or artists that I pull from; it's more of an underlying effect of such a big range of music that I love and I identify with - and all of that plays into what I do in minimal ways. I just really try to make music that reflects my identify, which is hard to pin down and is a lot of different things. I strive to make music that is hard to describe and meshes a lot of different genres, with the vocals being the thing that ties it all together.” TryingDifferentTogetherArtistInfluenceStrive Author:Tei Shi
“In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on - and are unsure of how individuals can affect real change. We don't know what effect we will have on the current political climate as we strive to effect change. All large historical decision draw from a sea of smaller decisions. One never knows what will make the difference in the long run.” LongRealMomentsFeelingsProblemRunningPoliticalIndividualDecisionRacismHistoricalStriveFascismMisogynyInadequateHomophobiaUnsure Author:Sabina Murray
“Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300 years. Then we have the Darwinian myths that life is a struggle to survive. However all life is not about competition but about striving for wholeness. When we compete we are weak, and when we work together we are strong. My hope is that this will become common knowledge someday because this will transcend religion as we know it. We just need to start focusing on the commonalities of religion.” WorldTogetherIndividualStrongCommonStruggleWeakCompetitionStriveMythSomedayWorking TogetherWholenessCommonalityLife Is A Struggle Author:Lynne McTaggart
“Startups think globally so as minister for digital affairs and innovation I do so too and strive to show the entire world how strong French tech is.” ThinkingWorldStrongInnovationStriveAffair Author:Axelle Lemaire
“I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.” GivingBelieveCharacterI BelieveEmotionEmotionalWeaknessStrivePainful Author:Sara Paretsky
“Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.” ThinkingAcceptingImpossibleStriveVulnerabilityImperfectionNarcissisticMegalomania Author:Francis Levy
“I think that a lot of the time I don't go for something in particular. I see what comes to me, I filter it out. I never really strive to play a particular character or do a particular genre of film. As long as it's a good script and a great range of people and my character is really interesting I can't see any reason not to do it.” PeopleThinkingLongReasonCharacterFilmInterestingStriveReally Interesting Author:Asa Butterfield
“Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few months or even a year or two in developments that are striving to provide critical elements of community - schools, healthcare, social and cultural institutions - even for people who are living there only temporarily. People invested in a home, mortgage, or community are less likely to move to more economically vibrant locales. That kind of entrenchment is going to be an impediment to the coming spatial fix.” PeopleKindHomeSchoolMovingHouseCommunityStriveHealthcareApartmentMortgage Author:Richard Florida
“You're always going to have dangerous, disaffected people in any society, and some will be violent. Increasing prosperity and reducing inequality won't solve that completely. But having big, positive dreams and a society that makes it possible to achieve those dreams is what we must strive for.” PeopleDreamAchieveDangerousStriveProsperityViolentInequality Author:Garry Kasparov
“Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.” ImportantCompassionStrive Author:Kyra Sedgwick
“Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."” PeopleThinkingMistakeComputerStrive Author:Brendan Benson
“If you're stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over again, what are you actually, really achieving? I'm someone who strives for success, for self-growth and new experiences, and to make a record that pushes me out of my comfort zone is something that's really exciting. It means you're making new decisions, you're making bold decisions, you're being scared, and you're getting through that - hopefully making something you're proud of, or being in a better position that makes you feel stronger as a human being.” MeanDecisionAchieveProudComfortExcitingStrongerStriveScaredStuckHopefullyZoneComfort ZoneStrifeBeing Scared Author:Marika Hackman
“Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance. I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.” WritingSimpleNovelPolicyStriveAppearanceBotherPublishIsraeliSettlement Author:Amos Oz