#working

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#come #designer #exposed #going #handy

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them. ↗

— Terri Windling

#great #great respect #hat #i #material

[Poem: Slates of Grey] Sullen faces like slates of grey— What I’d seen on a walk today. Bodies rushing bodies bolting Time for life a disregarding. Money to make and to grow old What about the hands to hold? Deadlines, projects, people to meet What about our own two feet. Sullen faces like slates of grey... What I’d see most anyday. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#city-life #happiness #job #life #life-experience

When people tell me they can’t afford to join a gym, I tell them to go outside; planet Earth is a gym and we’re already members. Run, climb, sweat, and enjoy all of the natural wonder that is available to you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#earth #gym #nature #outside #run

Praying without working is faith inaction. ↗

— Saji Ijiyemi

#hard-work #work-ethic #working #faith

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#also #american #american economy #apparently #average

Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work. ↗

— Katie Kacvinsky

#love #working #love

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#meditation #presence #psychology #spirituality #working-with-people

The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean. The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way." Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda. ↗

— Haniel Long

#inspirational-quotes #working-together #inspirational