#erm

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. ↗

— James Allen

#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#birth #brother #caused #certain #elder

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#joke #listen #lonesome #medium #millions

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#david #david letterman #enough #get #i

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

Age is how we determine how valuable you are. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#determine #how #valuable #you

I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#cause #column #concern #confident #course

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#call #emotive #i #later #myself

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#college #east #east coast #i #stayed