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“We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.”

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

Work Worry Positive Greatness Cures Worried Workplace Whiskey Stop Worrying

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.”

Wisdom Time Lost Work Devoted Workplace Lost Friendship

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.”

Success Desire Responsibility Willing Workplace Taking Responsibility Personal Relationships

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“There’s more to being an environmentalist than occasionally signing an online petition and mailing your check to the Sierra Club. Really the most effective environmental actions you can take have to do with crafting your home and surroundings, your workplace decisions and your investment habits.”

Home Action Work Decision Habit Investment Environmental Clubs Checks Online Workplace Surroundings Signing Environmentalist Petitions Sierra Mailing

Author:Alex Steffen

“I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.”

“When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.”

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Author:Martha Stewart

“As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.”

People Needs Individual Ability Team Skills Office Communicate Valuable Accomplish Medical Factories Filmmaking Workplace Collaborating Technical Skills Ability To Communicate Cooperative Learning

Author:George Lucas

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”

Author:Sam Ewing

“Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.”

Should Together Emotion Study Computer Vulnerability Workplace Computer Science Get Together

Author:Graham Joyce

“Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.”

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Author:Shari Arison

“It's hard to keep family life and workplace separated.”

Hard Workplace Family Life

Author:Monique Lhuillier

“The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.”

Building Civilized Workplace Surviving

Author:Robert I. Sutton

“I have no statistics to prove it, but I'm sure the American workplace will be adversely affected on Monday, the day after XXIV. The game will be the focus of conversation, and distractions happy and sad will be the order of the day, not to mention millions of hangovers. I wouldn't buy a toaster or a parachute manufactured the day after Super Bowl XXIV. You cannot engender such torrid anticipation for an event so great that it requires Roman numerals as a suffix, then expect there to be no social repercussions at its end.”

“Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.”

Doe Ends Jobs Process Description Workplace Euphemism Dismissal

Author:Nigel Rees

“Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.”

Men Faces Workplace

Author:Warren Farrell

“It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.”

Want Two Home Reality Reading Left Hours Office Tasks Finished Mail Unfortunate Efficiency Colleagues Workplace Surfing Slacker Surfing The Web

Author:Robert Pozen

“Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.”

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Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.”

Knows Want Company Know How Workplace

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.”

Enough Moments Suffering Individual Results Company Economy Conflict Happenings Interaction Workplace Workplace Conflict

Author:Tom Rath

“My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.”

Book Law Roles Conflict Fairness Workplace Workplace Conflict

Author:Hilda Solis

“Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.”

Energy Existence Conflict Capacity Organization Workplace Workplace Conflict

Book:Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

Source: Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

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