Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiTags: consciousness happiness quality-of-life
It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiTags: happiness quality-of-life
We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (political contributions notwithstanding), we are deciding to make American workers who must earn the minimum wage compete with them. I am not suggesting that we close the doors to China or to Mexico, but I am suggesting that we look very carefully at the web of international relationships that we are creating. At the very minimum, we should understand that we have two choices in our country: we can raise world living standards by exporting those standards, or we can lower living standards- not only the world’s but also our own- by deciding that it is acceptable for the products of exploited labor to enter this country.
Julianne MalveauxTags: work international-relations poverty quality-of-life
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.
Ha-Joon ChangTags: leisure time work income quality-of-life
It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. That meant they worked a forty-hour week, had the entire weekend off (plus two to four weeks' paid vacation in the summer), comprehensive medical benefits, and job security. In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked -- because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed?
Michael MooreTags: economics crime community economy income quality-of-life wages housing
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTags: life indifference quality-of-life figures
Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.
Christina ScaliseTags: life money time perfection stress clutter organization quality-of-life organize
The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.
Steven RedheadTags: life reason purpose effort value quality-of-life determine
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
SenecaTags: life existence time living quality-of-life
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.
John F. KennedyTags: civilization test quality-of-life the-arts
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