Workers Quotes - Page 16

• I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Believe, Imagination, Telephones

  Source: collider.com

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• Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Entrepreneur, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

  Edie Falco

  People, Costumes, Co Worker

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview by June Thomas, April 6, 2012.

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• The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Business, Work

  Wall Street Journal, 22 May 1995 See Peter 1

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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• I explain to everyone I deal with-co-workers, children, friends-that I'm transitionally challenged and they should call me on my cell phone if I'm even a few minutes late. Such calls often come in when I'm happily writing or rearranging the furniture. The monochrones in my life are so organized, they have no trouble remembering to remind me to show up.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Writing, Phones

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• Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

  Alvin Adams

  Attitude, Government, Suspicion

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• A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

  Joe Hill

  Song, Heart, Numbers

  Letter to the editor of Solidarity, November 29, 2014.

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• I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.

  Stephen Graham

  Love, Jobs, Kids

  "Gizza job, CBeebies". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage the federal [government]. People who have confused suffocating collectivism, which is bad, for a necessity to solve collective action problems, which is what all human endeavor is based on.

  Nick Hanauer

  Confused, Government, People

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, Minimum Wage, Middle

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Secret, Mind, Method

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.372, Courier Corporation

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• No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Years, Civilization, Effort

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.210, Best Books on

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• Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

  Fred Brooks

  Communication, Men, Tasks

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• I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have to work very, very hard. So I'd rather be known as a hard worker. I don't think symbols do much, nor icons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hard Work, Thinking, Icons

  "The New Burma". "60 Minutes" with Bill Whitaker, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time minimum wage workers. That's obscene.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Years, Income

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Warren from Mar 13, 2015

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• War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

  Keir Hardie

  War, Government, Murder

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

  James A. Michener

  Creative, Groups, Would Be

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• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  Nic Sheff

  Two, Appreciate, People

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• Wal-Mart workers make just over $8 an hour, and they must pay more than a third of their health insurance premium if they choose to take the company's insurance. That means just about half of them don't choose to take the health insurance because they can't afford it.

  Liza Featherstone

  Mean, Half, Pay

  "Selling Women Short". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. February 2, 2005.

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• I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.

  Kristina Schroder

  Hunters, Needs, Quota

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• I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Memorable, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.187, Penguin

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• Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

  Tom DeMarco

  Development, Prisoner, Supervision

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.164, Addison-Wesley

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• We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

  Barbara Jordan

  Children, School, Order

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