Top 23 Quotes About Workplace Politics
#1. I'll always be your big spoon." He snorted. "Unless I'm being the big spoon. Then you'll be my little spoon." "Always.
N.R. Walker
#2. I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.
Jim Frey
#3. Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.
Sidney Lanier
#4. Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.
Bonnie Marcus
#5. In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
Paul Keating
#6. I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
William Labov
#7. Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.
Gerry Harvey
#9. The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.
Vicki Robin
#10. No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter are slow, heavy and stupid.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
#11. I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.
Patti Smith
#12. The most powerful, life-chaging truths that God will teach us are only learned over a continuous process of daily walking with Him
Alisa Hope Wagner
#13. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#14. People change all the time whether you like it or not.
Seohyun
#15. In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.
Kamala Harris
#16. Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.
Bonnie Marcus
#17. The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.
Anthony M. Platt
#18. Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.
Bonnie Marcus
#19. Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.
Bonnie Marcus
#20. The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
Wolfgang Smith
#21. All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.
Mindy Kaling
#23. It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
