Employment Quote by John Maynard Keynes Download Open image “Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged” — John Maynard Keynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Employment Logic Lyrical Middle Middle aged Poetry Poetry is
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.” — John A. Vanek Copy Share Image
The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that… — Graham Hough Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London Copy Share Image
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
