More quotations tagged with “work”
Where the whole man is involved, there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
—Marshall McLuhan
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
—C. Wright Mills
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
—Kahlil Gibran
I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their check. But ultimately it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.
—Ed Begley Jr.
The more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
—David Graeber