"A lot of women in the workplace are stuck in the uncomfortable place of having to come to terms with the fact that something isn't right, while no one around them will listen, or accept that something is wrong. Many workplaces have best practice, but sadly, many do not. The barriers are not insurmountable, but they are there, and we see that in the stats."

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Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Tara Moss

#Workplace Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Stuck Quotes

“Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.”

Source : Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3399, Titus Books
“You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.”
“Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.”
“I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.”
“It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.”
“In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.”
“The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.”

Source : "The Edict of Chandigarh" by Le Corbusier, 1959.

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