Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsStichwörter: success woman sacrifice labor
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: work capitalism labor
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
Criss JamiStichwörter: selfish service labor attention king ordinary-people royalty insecurity restaurants discontent disrespect waiter inconsiderate waitress food-industry food-service
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.
Criss JamiStichwörter: money equality work self-worth meaning value writer labor worth hard-work career occupation income farmer comedian nurse bigger-picture
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.
Tad WilliamsStichwörter: imagination labor hard-work treasures my-life-story
Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.
Jack LondonStichwörter: wealth work labor
I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: intelligence labor labor-activism desk-job manual-labor
There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.
Steven GouldWork, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any different? The Pol Pot regime at least had a vision, however blurred, of an egalitarian society. We kill people in the six-figure range (at least) in order to sell Big Macs and Cadillacs to the survivors. Our forty or fifty thousand annual highway fatalities are victims, not martyrs. They died for nothing — or rather, they died for work. But work is nothing to die for.
Bob BlackStichwörter: work capitalism labor anarchism
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: addiction labor laboring-class sugar wage carbohydrates wage-slavery diabesity dr-hyman dr-robert-lustig sugar-addiction sugar-the-bitter-truth
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