Employed Quotes

• If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.

  W. Clement Stone

  Time, Destiny, Thinking

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• I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Helsinki, University

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• The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

  Leland Stanford

  Agreement, Law, Done

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Rehabilitation

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

  David Ricardo

  Gold, Arbitrary, Scarcity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.263

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Mental Health, Pleasure

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Writing, Wheat Fields

  The Roycroft Dictionary of Epigrams (1914)

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• When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Country, Labor Day, News

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• I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

  John Lithgow

  Eugenics, Lucky, Actors

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• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

  Ben Hecht

  Names, Hollywood, Thirty

  "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

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• The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

  Charles Babbage

  Effort, Doe, Force

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.30

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• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Heart

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264

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• The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

  Joseph Butler

  Lying, Vices, Deceit

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Intellectual, Opponents

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• I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

  Judi Dench

  Lucky, Actors, Actresses

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• I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

  David Karp

  Years, Want

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• We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Discipline, People

  FaceBook post by Senator Marco Rubio from Jul 07, 2011

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• They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Purpose, Might

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• So let's say you realize that you are never going to be a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. person. You're not cut out for that sort of typical work environment. The benefit might be that if you embrace that and say I need to be self-employed or I need to be doing more project-oriented work. Identify the benefits - I'd be more productive. I'd be happier. The people around me would be happier because my mood would be better. When you identify the benefits of accepting the behavior or habit, you actually give leverage to it and give yourself a better chance of sticking with it.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Cutting, Self, People

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• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  Laura Riding

  Running, Art, People

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Myth", 1928.

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• Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

  Victoria Wood

  Work, Self, Problem

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• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  Clara Zetkin

  Two, Competition, Males

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.

  Tony Greig

  Team, Two, People

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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