Absurd Quote by Frederick Herzberg Download Open image “Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.” — Frederick Herzberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Health Healthy Idleness Indifference Irresponsibility Response
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can be enormously… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark… — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him. — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that… — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants… — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and… — Frederick Herzberg Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
