Working Life Quotes - Page 3

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Wayne Allard

Adults, Would Be, Income

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You've had a long working life
As everyone knows
You can now do nothing at all
And then have a doze
Enjoy Your Retirement

John Walter Bratton

Retirement, Long, Enjoy

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I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Saoirse Ronan

Home, Other Worlds, People

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

Tilda Swinton

Years, Together, Example

Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Jason Isaacs

People, Soul, Trying

"Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

Julian Ovenden

Cutting, Rejection, Everyday

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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

Barbara Tuchman

House, Leaving, Cards

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Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Lord Byron

Book, Regulation, Fit

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On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working lives, individuals provide for their retirement.

Milton Friedman

Country, Retirement, People

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.

Christian Schwochow

Children, East Germany, Giving

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors.

Herb Kohl

Writing, Rights, Doors

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.

Clare Wright

Mother, Women, Thinking

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I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Term, Private Life, Fortunate

"Chiwetel Ejiofor on ‘Triple 9′ and Why He Wanted to be Part of ‘Doctor Strange’". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 25, 2016.

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Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

Aldous Huxley

Practice, Tyrants, Majority

Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.84, Transaction Publishers

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Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Idries Shah

Book, Philosophical, Mean

Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.9, Octagon Press Ltd

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If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

Erich Fromm

People, Political, Our Love

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As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Garson Kanin

Self Confidence, Doubt, Arrogant

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Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.

Robert W. Bly

Moving, Discipline, Intellectual

Robert W. Bly (2003). “Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words”, McGraw Hill Professional

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The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

Masaaki Imai

Philosophy, Home, Kaizen

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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

Steven Soderbergh

People, Want, Life Is

Source: www.esquire.com

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Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Meaningful, Jobs, Opportunity

Source: www.thehighcalling.org

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I think the issue of women's choice is essential for a woman being able to have their lives - if they cannot control their own bodies by choosing if or when to have a child, then they cannot control their working life or anything around them.

Tavis Smiley

Children, Thinking, Issues

Source: www.pbs.org

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In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Children, Fall, Caring

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An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

John F. Kennedy

Artist, Discovery, Discipline

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In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Tony Visconti

Senior, Jobs, New York

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