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“My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.”

Knows Needs Young Mother Father Social Attitude Mets Workers Engineers Bothered My Attitude Social Worker

Author:Jo Brand

“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.”

People Inspirational Giving Important Law Focus Events Anger Workers Negativity In-laws Destroyers Take Control Meddling Co Worker Sister In Law Backstabbing

Author:Anais Nin

“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”

Ifs Men World Mean Has Beens Done Play Player Workers Really Mean

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.”

Source: Public Power in the Age of Empire

“Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”

Slave Workers Queens Bees Drones Fly Away Mayhem Fight Club Novel Fight Club Book Worker Bees

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“We asked for workers. We got people instead.”

People Workers

Author:Max Frisch

“The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!”

Problem Management Workers Top Management

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.”

Hard Ambition Workers Worthy Hungry Being The Best Admission Sorting Hogwarts Hard Worker Great Ambition Power Hungry Gryffindor Hufflepuff

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.”

Should Enjoy Singing Dancing Workers Painter Observers

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.”

People World Wells Found Waiting Cases Land Students Succeed Towns Workers Folks Ill Vices Mates Restless Retired Vice Versa Servicemen

Author:Tom Robbins

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Spiritual Desire Grief Sky Perfection Difficulty Blue Plant Workers Seeds Flying Being Human Hoe

Author:Rumi

“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

Ifs Helping Government America Form Social Doors Workers Storm Lawyer Fascists Kicking Social Worker Takeovers

Book:Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.”

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.”

Needs Causes Unity Workers Great Things Communism Opponents Individualism Marxism Slogans Marxist

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”

Men Country Victory Men And Women Workers International Fourth Banner

Book:The Transitional Program & the Struggle for Socialism

Source: The Transitional Program & the Struggle for Socialism

“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”

Ifs Trying Next Asks Happened Okay Tired Workers Pretending Next Day Co Worker

Author:Richard Siken

“This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.”

“We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”

Source: Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)

“It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!”

Way President Land Kings Moon Mountain Workers Organized Frontiers Ballots Promised Land Mountain Top New Frontiers Yes We Can

Book:Change We Can Believe In

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.”

Whole Shows Social Grows Can Do Class Activity Organization Structure Property Workers Possession Strikes Protest Inherent Working Class Worthless Possessing Social Structure

Author:Voltairine de Cleyre

“Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Persons Form Names Levels Views Numbers Fields Type Models Workers Scripts Point Of View Command Warrior Primaries If I Could Hypothesis Ants Activate Surnames

Author:Victor Pelevin

“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”

“Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation.”

People Humans Effort Progress Willing Workers Wheels Inevitability Human Progress Co Worker Kings Speech

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.”

Inspirational Important Goal Ability Business Family Communication Tools Workers Communicate Educational Customers Pursuit Clients Co Worker Ability To Communicate

Author:Les Brown

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.”

“Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.”

Happens Brother Dad Politician Workers Illness Mental Illness Aunt Your Brother Your Dad Tesco

Author:Frank Bruno

“The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.”

“You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”

Miracle Workers Dresden Harry Dresden Miracle Worker

Book:Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.”

Sometimes Workers Aids Regions Goods Survivor Compounds Pouring Disruption Devastated Foreign Aid

Author:James Buchan

“No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.”

Purpose Jesus Left Christ Gone One Thing Spring Jesus Christ Workers Enthusiasm Cleaning Strain Mills Personal Relationships Spring Cleaning

Book:Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call

Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call

“All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”

Source: The Jungle

“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.”

“The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.”

Made Fear Process Voice Challenges Easier Female Workers Careful Gentle Breaking Down

Book:Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Source: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“It feels like the whole world has turned upside down. There aren't any more rules. Hey,' I say to Sam, because if the world's gone crazy, then I guess I can do whatever I want. "Guess what? I'm a worker.”

Ifs World Want Feels I Can Whole Can Do Gone Crazy Workers Whole World Hey Upside Down Gone Crazy

Book:White Cat

Source: White Cat

“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”

Men World Self Together Walks Half Middle Broken Office Angel Workers Monsters Ghost Beast Sovereign Exile Ripped Back Together Waiter Watchers Wanderers Busted

Author:Walker Percy

“Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.”

Knows Mean Would Be Crime Workers Solve Cop Investigators Deranged Informants

Author:Andrew Vachss

“Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.”

Source: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

“Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”

Long Artist Results Assuming Workers Worthy Accomplish Judged Journal Haul Long Haul

Author:William Stafford

“Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!”

Long Workers Zombie Proletariat

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.”

“I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.”

People Ifs Mean Use Left Term Justice Honest Movement Elements Workers Definitions Committed Being Honest Mean People Peace And Justice

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Maybe careers aren’t something you can really plan for. They just sort of happen, like brown eyes or flat feet. I took one of those career aptitude tests last year, and it showed that I should be a flight attendant or a seamstress. Not a fashion designer or anything, mind you, but a sweatshop worker. Apparently stewardesses and sweatshop workers and I enjoy a lot of the same interests and activities.”

“Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.”

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with the details, he's finished. The attitude of co-workers, the indifference of superiors, the poor quality of the equipment - all of it pales if you still love the job; all of it matters if you don't.”

Source: Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets

“Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.”

People Needs Fighting Fronts Sitting Weak Tragedy Workers Aids Starving Sitting Quietly

Book:The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

Source: The Chief Inspector Gamache Series

“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”

Today Jobs Labor Workers Saving Devices

Book:The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.”

Way May Self Force Teach Relation Workers Stranger Neighbor Partners Sufficient Fancy Our Relationship Mentor Family Friends Self Sufficient Co Worker Life Partner

Author:Derrick Bell

“Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all magic was--it was rather soothing to have all the same qualities wrapped up in a small, furry, generally attractive bundle that...might, if it were in a good mood, sit on your knee and purr. Magic never sat on anybody's knee and purred.”

Ifs Self Might Used Quality Magic Cat Workers Mood Knees Attractive Sat Wrestling Soothing Bundles Good Mood Devious Furry

Book:Spindle's End

Source: Spindle's End

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