Workplace Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Shari Arison

  Home, Elderly, Listening Ear

  "Coming to Do Good" by Shari Arison, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2011.

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• I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".

  Joel Bakan

  Running, Business, Couple

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• When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.

  Gary Chapman

  Heart, Ideas, Issues

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• We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

  Jon Porter

  Children, School, Epidemics

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

  Marcus Buckingham

  Want, Company, Know How

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• 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.

  Tom Rath

  Suffering, Conflict, Moments

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 12, 2004.

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

  Hilda Solis

  Book, Law, Roles

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

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Organization, Energy, Conflict

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2006). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.59, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Years, Trying, Figures

  "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• Work as smart as you are able.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Smart, Able

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.200, Conari Press

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• A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

  David Whyte

  Soul, World, Knows

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• The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Moving, Men, Talking

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November, 2011.

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• Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.

  Celinda Lake

  Want, Six, Small Business

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• It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace.

  Chuck Martin

  People, Steps

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• The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

  Edward Young

  Trust, Sea, Safety

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.201

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• The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others.

  Charles Jennings

  Technology, Deployment, Support

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• If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Writing, Math, College

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• Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Design Process, Office

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• In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

  Kamala Harris

  Doe, Needs, Hook

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

  Gwyn Morgan

  People, Culture, Definitions

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• A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.

  Hiroyuki Hirano

  Fall, Engineering, Integrating

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• The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is "eat your own dog food ." That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell.

  Willow Bay

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.

  Willow Bay

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

  Taylor Hackford

  Sex, Class, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Strong, Kindness

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