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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."
"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."
"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."
"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee's pit of debt."
Explore more quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."
"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."
"He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words."
"Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. It's difficult to hate an idea. It's much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn't have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group anything."
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
"I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?"
"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."
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