Cogs In The Machine Quotes

#1. Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

David Corbett

#2. Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

Srikumar Rao

#3. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Anna Politkovskaya

#4. It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal

#6. We're just cogs in a machine really, aren't we?" Miss Fawcett said to her and Ursula said, "But remember, without the cog there is no machine.

Kate Atkinson

#7. We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

Ernst Toller

#8. Casey's flesh and blood sends the war machine's children to exclusive private schools.

Cindy Sheehan

#9. Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Ha Jin

#10. When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

Ken Knabb

#11. I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

Norman Reedus

#12. Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Richard Dawson

#13. Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word 'lubricant' on our headstone.

Fennel Hudson

#14. A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Trevor Baylis

#15. I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

Mitch Hedberg

#16. Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

George Orwell

#17. If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Charles Handy

#18. If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#19. It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings ... without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

Susa Young Gates

#20. I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.

Sri Chinmoy

#21. Mrs. Wiggins said she didn't like weddings: they always made her cry. "And when I cry," she said, "there's no use trying to go on with the ceremony until I stop.

Walter R. Brooks

#22. I only wanted to be a good employee who generated as much profit as possible for his employer. I was merely a small cog in the machine - and now I'm suddenly supposedly the main person responsible for the financial crisis.

Jerome Kerviel

#23. I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Charlotte Bronte

#24. An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

Knute Rockne

#25. Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience

Steven Magee

#26. You can go to the trenches and be blown to bits; nothing will create that spark of passion if there isn't the intervention of a human hand. Somebody has to put his hand into the machine and let it be wrenched off if the cogs are to mesh again.

Henry Miller

#27. I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.

Tom Weston-Jones

#28. Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

John Dewey

#29. We need stressful days in order to be happy. We need days when we get zero sleep and are working tirelessly on a deadline. Because if we didn't, the lazy days wouldn't feel good ... We need to always be working towards something in order to feel useful and have a sense of purpose.

Ryan O'Connell