#vince

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#as far as #concerned #convinced #death #ending

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#became #capital #charm #convinced #criticism

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#imagine #past #pretend #remember #you

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#am #basically #cease #contribute #convinced

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole. ↗

— Robert Barany

#co-operate #convinced #experiment #humanity #i

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#convince #first #i #maybe #myself

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it. ↗

— Jay London

#cockroaches #convinced #diffused #i #military

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced