#work

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#bear #book #first #had #happened

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#better #better world #days #during #enough

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. ↗

— Alan Cranston

#certain things #citizen #corporation #group #just

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#history #human #machine #manufacturing #rebellion

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#believe #coming #hard #impossible #long

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#get #had #happens #hard #i

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research. ↗

— James Cronin

#efforts #followed #george #glorious #independently

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work. ↗

— Chuck Close

#artist #decision-making #decision-making process #embedded #getting

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. ↗

— Glenn Close

#different view #enforcement #great #great time #had

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them. ↗

— Glenn Close

#hear #i #i think #oh #somebody