Adults Quote by Jeffrey Pfeffer

Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating…

— David Autor

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets…

— Harlan Ellison

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs…

— Richard Flanagan

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat…

— Adam Fletcher

But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There's some lasting effects. It's just the way that…

— Joe Thomas

Whether it's in Jobcentres or in Whitehall, young people are constantly coming up against a narrative that portrays them as lazy and feckless, when…

— Emily Thornberry

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Keeping people in jobs they are not suited for is terrible for them because it allows them to live in a false reality while…

— Ray Dalio

“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked…

— Edith Wharton

“A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.”

— Ben Sasse

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things dont exist than to talk about them.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

— Nicholas Rescher