I consider Les Nourritures Terrestres as a frightening book: "Look for God in no other place than everywhere." Go and tell that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with… — Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert Copy Share Image
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to… — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman,… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason,… — Frontinus Copy Share Image