"The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron"

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Source : Frederick Winslow Taylor (2004). “Scientific Management”, Routledge

Frederick Winslow Taylor

#Stupid Quotes #Men Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“You have to go down before you can come out â€” thatâ€™s how these things always work.”
“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”
“Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity”

Source : "Firms offered help shrinking carbon footprints" by Hilary Osborne, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2006.
“I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.”
“All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief.”
“The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.”
“It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”
“The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. â€“â€“The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.”

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