Piece of Work

Famous quotes containing the words piece of work, piece of, piece and/or work:

    The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with all work that is not done by a machine—which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Paul: Did you have fun as a kid?
    Jeanne: It’s the most beautiful thing.
    Paul: Is it beautiful to be made into a tattletale, or forced to admire authority, or sell yourself for a piece of candy?
    Bernardo Bertolucci (b. 1940)

    Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive—or don’t.
    Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)

    The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)