Workplace Quotes - Page 3

• Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

  Romola Garai

  Suffering, Assuming, Discrimination

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• On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.

  Alain de Botton

  Space, Community, Atmosphere

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• If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

  Mehmet Oz

  Journey, Lunch, Hiking

  "Behind the Scenes in the O.R. With Dr. Oz" by Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.

  Andrew Weil

  Lying, Naps, People

  "Sleep Tips For A Younger, More Vibrant You" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I like to have a simple workplace.

  Rick Riordan

  Simple

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• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  Rachel Roy

  Men, Percent, Can Do

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• Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

  Tim Scott

  Fairness, Economic, Should

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• If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

  Alex Steffen

  Media, Opposites, Long

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.

  Stephen Covey

  Memories, Creativity, Successful

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• Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

  Eli Broad

  Teacher, Succeed, Responsible

  "Management Experience Is Paramount" by Eli Broad, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Thinking, Connections, Actresses

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

  Mary Douglas

  Two, Years, Safety

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• Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance.

  Aubrey Daniels

  Organization, Effort, Way

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, Rights

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• And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Two, People, Three

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• No matter what the realm of leadership – the home, the workplace, the church, or the community – the vision is crucial. Leaders must funnel their faith into action so that life-changing results.

  Phil Pringle

  Life Changing, Home, Community

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.

  Fred Thompson

  Real, Political Differences, Air

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• Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

  Xavier Becerra

  Children, Home, School

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

  Eric Braeden

  Mother, Father, Kids

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

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• I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

  Richard Wagner

  Hate, Men, Effort

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• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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• I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Football, Dream

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• We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Opportunity, Safety, Our Society

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• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  Patricia Heaton

  Running, Kids, Men

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