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"Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!"
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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."
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Personal Development
"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."
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Personal Development
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
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"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
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"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."
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"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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Personal Development
"Employee Engagement"Employee Engagement has become a very hot topic in recent years. The escalating statistics for disengagement are alarming. In 2015, the Gallup Polls' "The State of the American Workforce survey found that only 32.5 percent of the U.S. Workforce is engaged and committed where they work, and 54 percent say they would consider leaving their companies if they could receive a 20 percent raise elsewhere. Disengagement not only lowers performance, morale, and productivity, but it's costing employers billions of dollars a year. It's a growing problem, which has many companies baffled."
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"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."
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"For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done."
Mother
"That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face."
Time
"I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book."
Love
"Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?"
Friendship
"The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough."
Thought
"Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right."
Thought
"He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really."
Humor
"There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood."
Intelligence
"Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size."
State
"Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later."
Time
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