Workplace quotes
72 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?"
"Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy."
"How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!""
"People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure."
"It's time for people in business to take steps to recharge the workplace."
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"Everybody's got brain matter in their hair, and somehow that makes it a very happy workplace."
"I'm not a slave driver or a yeller. I was yelled at in kitchens and other workplaces."
"We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels on the subject. We have far more novels about families bickering at Thanksgiving and not enough about the day before Thanksgiving at the office. If we lived in, say, Romania, maybe a workplace job might not be as important to the cultural discussion. But we live in America, where work is crucially important and capitalism drives everything we do."