A Quote by Guy Standing

Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted. — © Guy Standing
Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted.
As long as you're willing to soak up information and learn from anyone who is worth learning from, that helps you out so much. I can become a new fighter, I can learn new tricks, I can improve my game.
The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.
I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
I purposely put myself in new, stressful situations so that I can continuously learn.
It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.
Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?
Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.
All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks!
I find traveling anywhere very stressful. If I ever have to go on tour, I tend to find it all a bit too stressful. I am too much of a control freak with traveling, and nothing is ever on time. The one thing I can't stand is being late.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.
Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
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