Workplace Quotes - Page 16

• advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Mother, Children, Opportunity

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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mother, Children

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace.

  Sally Helgesen

  Unique, Opportunity, Numbers

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.39, Crown Business

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• The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Peace, Home, School

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• Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Work, Writing

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• Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Motivation, Women

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

  Liz Murray

  Determination, Hard Work, Looks

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• I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Moving, Next

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• In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.

  Daniel Goleman

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.29, Bantam

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

  Janet Frame

  Writing, Years, Land

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America - and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.

  Michael Moore

  Numbers, America, Trying

  "Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life". Book by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Work, Creativity

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• If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly. (Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)

  Tina Fey

  Book, People, Mad

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• People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Mean, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  Meg Whitman

  Pain, Sunset, Government

  ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Community, Enthusiastic

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

  Theodore E. Steinway

  Iron, Piano, May

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• America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

  Tom Morello

  Jobs, Exercise, Land

  "Modern Happiness: Springsteen and the American Dream" by Craig Werner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  Barbara Mikulski

  College, Careers, Community

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• Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Play, People

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• The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

  Allen Tate

  Encouragement, Opportunity, Thinking

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• What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

  Hanna Rosin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Skills

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• A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

  David Whyte

  Real, Passion, Soul

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