#operate

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#atlantic ocean #backward #crab #crawling #ever

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#amount #artists #back #columbia #companies

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. ↗

— Steve Ross

#avoid #because #company #criticism #eliminate

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result? ↗

— John Bates Clark

#case #dishonest #give #honest #how

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#easily #emotional #i #levels #operate

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy

#always #business #him #i #i always

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#assumption #back #care #child #child care

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#cooperate #currency #duty #imposes #more

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#acute #business #i #lot #many

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. ↗

— Iris Chang

#capitalistic #communist #control #country #engaged