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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."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."
"To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job."
"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
"When I worked at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, we would routinely be engulfed in cold clouds of helium and nitrogen gas as we discharged it into the video camera systems daily. The management team never warned us that we were in a hazardous oxygen deprived environment during this activity that was known for its ability to adversely affect physical and mental health, and possibly bring on death by asphyxiation."
Explore more quotes by Maynard James Keenan
"We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle."
"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."
"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour."
"I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us."
"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."
"I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium."
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