Besseling Vervoer Quotes & Sayings

I'm forty four; I'm way closer to dead than I am life of the party. — Doug Stanhope

One way was Taylorism. Frederick W. Taylor had been a steel company foreman who closely analyzed every job in the mill, and worked out a system of finely detailed division of labor, increased mechanization, and piecework wage systems, to increase production and profits. In 1911, he published a book on "scientific management" that became powerfully influential in the business world. Now management could control every detail of the worker's energy and time in the factory. As Harry Braverman said (Labor and Monopoly Capital), the purpose of Taylorism was to make workers interchangeable, able to do the simple tasks that the new division of labor required - like standard parts divested of individuality and humanity, bought and sold as commodities. — Howard Zinn

She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories. — Wally Lamb

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars. — Peter Doherty

It isn't so much that geniuses make it look easy; it's that they make it look it fast. — Sarah Manguso

The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in this solitude, a syllable, Out of these gawky flitterings, Intones its single emptiness, The savagest hollow of winter-sound. — Wallace Stevens

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on the scorecard. — Bob Bruce

He burned as if with fever, and she burned for him. — Grace Draven