"Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the person above you, the higher up you are, the less you have to do."

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Source : Corinne Maier (2005). “Bonjour laziness: jumping off the corporate ladder”, Pantheon

Corinne Maier

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“The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.”
“First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.”
“Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.”
“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”
“Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.”
“The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.”
“My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.”

Source : Roy Lichtenstein, Jack Cowart, Katonah Museum of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (2009). “Lichtenstein in process”
“Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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