#labor

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#elaborate #elite #fall #intellectual #obviously

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#brain power #cheap #compete #going #labor

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#become #cut #down #energy #fundamentally

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#build #day #destroy #laborious #may

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#coercive #conform #decree #distribution #element

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ↗

— Confucius

#others #same #were #you #yourself

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#growing #growing up #i #just #kind

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#blessed #bring #cathedrals #celebrating #concentrations

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#amazing #being #different #different ways #fail