Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're… — Richard Dawson Copy Share Image
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position… — Otto Ohlendorf Copy Share Image
I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other… — Brad Parscale Copy Share Image
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get… — Paddy Considine Copy Share Image
It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning… — Fynn Copy Share Image
“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel?… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The reality is that in the business world almost everyone is just a very small cog in a huge collection of cogs.2… — Steve Krug Copy Share Image
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I think writing comics is predicated on being a fan - there's no either/or. I'd argue I'm an even bigger fan now… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
In today's materialistic world there is a risk of people becoming slaves to money, as though they were simply cogs in a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image