Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The vast size of the available workforce in the emerging markets (1.3 billion people in China alone) means that labor costs will… — Frank Coyle Copy Share Image
To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits… — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue,… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties,… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health,… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done -… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Harmonies come really naturally to me. I don't have to labor too hard over them. I'll sing a lead vocal, and then… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring,… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector,… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Labor is an antidote for angst and general misery, and the fear that the Devil is going to grab you by the… — Ann Rice Copy Share Image
