The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.
Ricardo Semler
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time... →
Maria Semple
And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of... →
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my... →
Amartya Sen
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother... →
Maurice Sendak
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a... →
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to... →