"Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work."

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Source : "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.

Frederick Herzberg

#Healthy Quotes #Indifference Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.”
“My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.”
“There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ: Jesus is my God, Jesus is my Spouse, Jesus is my Life, Jesus is my only Love, Jesus is my All in All; Jesus is my Everything.”
“Actresses get stupid questions asked of them all the time, like, â€˜How do you stay sexy?â€™ or â€˜Whatâ€™s your sexiest quality?â€™ All these ridiculous things you would never ask a man.”
“Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet ...”

Source : Victoria Moran (1985). “Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
“He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”
“I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.”
“The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.”

Source : Radio Times, August 5-11, 2006.

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