"the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat."

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Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.21, Vintage

Corinne Maier

#Business Quotes #Work Quotes #Office Quotes

“Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were”
“The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.”
“Sound strategy starts with having the right goal”
“I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor
“Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything, and the whole idea of causality has to be revised.”
“I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.”
“I like the idea of R-rated franchises.”
“It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.”

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