Top 1200 Construction Workers Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers.

In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers.

If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.

I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

I have slavishly dedicated myself to the construction of an image that nobody but me sees. Nobody but me is pondering the question: How does Maggie Rowe stack up against others as an overall human being?

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.

Our regional infrastructure deficiencies are problems that everyone - taxpayers, commuters, workers, business owners - experience every day.

We have relied on China for far too long to provide cheap labor and goods at the expense of America and our workers.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

You know Bakersfield was full of workers from the south, from Texas and Arkansas, and they brought their gospel and blues with them. And that's the sound I grew with.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

The BJP is trying to spread fire and violence across the country, and there is only one force that can stop it - the workers of the Congress and its leaders.

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

... trying to control construction costs is like trying to control the cost of a hospital stay. You may not realize that when you sneeze and the nurse hands you a box of tissues, it generates a $5 charge on your bill. But you still have to pay.

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

In the hyper-exploitative sector of retail and hospitality, workers are made to feel worthless - undeserving of a proper wage and genuine security.

As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

To enable our vast offering of user-created play, Roblox offers a virtual construction and game-development platform where everyone has the power to make anything from avatar clothing and 3D models to virtual worlds and hardcore games.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.

If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I want to go back to Congress and get to work on making a real difference for the families and workers of South Florida.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

Nothing is impossible. Whatever idea comes up, we always try to make it. Sometimes it doesn't work because it's just not technically achievable. But you can always make things better, more contemporary with the construction, the inside, the weight, and all of that.

Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.

The Supreme Court has increasingly come down on the side of big corporations instead of workers and middle-class families.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

I've grown up with an active outdoor lifestyle. Before I lived in Australia, I ran a construction company in Oregon, U.S.A. I also owned horses and would spend several weeks a year exploring Oregon's beautiful wilderness areas on horseback.

If companies shared profits with their workers, employers and employees would have a greater mutual interest in each other's success.

America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.