Workmen Quotes

• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Hype, Discipline

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By the work one knows the workman.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Work, Army

  "Las Fábulas de La Fontaine: Libro I". Libro de Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Es imposible, tan imposible como resucitar a los muertos, restaurar cualquier cosa que haya sido grande o bella en arquitectura. Aquello en lo que he insistido como la vida del todo, ese espíritu que sólo dan la mano y el ojo del obrero, nunca podrá ser recuperado.

  John Ruskin

  Hermoso, Ojo, Manos

  John Ruskin (2015). "Las siete lámparas de la arquitectura", p.228, John Ruskin.

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• No hablemos de superdotación, de talentos innatos. Se puede presumir de grandes hombres de todo tipo que estaban muy poco dotados. Adquirieron la grandeza, se convirtieron en "genios" (como decimos nosotros), por cualidades de cuya carencia nadie que supiera lo que eran presumiría: todos poseían esa seriedad del obrero eficiente que primero aprende a construir bien las partes antes de aventurarse a modelar un gran todo; se concedían tiempo para ello, porque se complacían más en hacer bien las cosas pequeñas y secundarias que en el efecto de un todo deslumbrante.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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• The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Artist, Men, He Man

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Hay muchos aprendices hábiles, pero pocos maestros obreros.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perfection, Masters, Workers

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). "The selected works of Thoreau", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH).

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• It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Men, Order

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2013). “Democracy in America -”, p.340, Read Books Ltd

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• The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Dresses, Littles

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). "EL ARTE DE ENSEÑAR"

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• Un mal trabajador culpa a sus herramientas.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Herramientas, culpa, espíritu empresarial

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• There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, May, Wells

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”

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• Es difícil encontrar un trabajador competente que no dedique un tiempo considerable a estudiar lo despacio que puede trabajar y convencer a su jefe de que va a buen ritmo.

  Frederick Winslow Taylor

  Time, Work, Doe

  Frederick Winslow Taylor (1947). “Scientific Management, Comprising Shop Management: The Principles of Scientific Management [and] Testimony Before the Special House Committee”, New York, Harper

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• We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  San Francisco de Sales

  Appreciation, Should, Persons

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• Un mal líder te dirá cuántas personas trabajan para él. Un gran líder te dirá para cuántas personas trabaja.

  Simon Sinek

  Gente, Líder, Gran Líder

  Mensaje de Twitter del 12 de abril de 2012

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• Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

  John Joseph Bernet

  Creer, Hombres, Manos

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• ¿Qué es un artista sino un obrero empeñado en que, pase lo que pase, su obra sea excelente?

  William Morris

  Artist, Determined, Excellent

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• No creo que ese zapatero sea un buen trabajador que hace un gran zapato para un pie pequeño.

  Plutarch

  Pensar, Zapatos, Pies

  Plutarch (1871). "Plutarch's Morals", p.385

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• Cuando los obreros se esfuerzan por hacerlo mejor que bien, confunden su habilidad en la codicia.

  William Shakespeare

  Habilidades, Excelencia, Esfuerzo

  William Shakespeare (1790). "Las obras y poemas de William Shakspeare, con las correcciones e ilustraciones de varios comentaristas; a las que se añaden Un ensayo sobre el orden cronológico de sus obras; un ensayo relativo a Shakspeare y Jonson; una disertación sobre las tres partes del rey Enrique vi; un relato histórico de la escena inglesa; y notas. Por E. Malone. 10 vols. [en 11 pt.]", p.529

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• Si soñáramos lo mismo todas las noches, nos afectaría tanto como los objetos que vemos todos los días. Y si un obrero común soñara cada noche durante doce horas que es un rey, creo que sería casi tan feliz como un rey que soñara cada noche durante doce horas que es un obrero común.

  Blaise Pascal

  Dream, Kings, Believe

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• A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

  Confucius

  Tools, Want, Firsts

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• No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

  John Robert Seeley

  Wall, Men, Heaven

  Sir John Robert Seeley (1866). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.330

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• Todos los hombres son iguales por naturaleza, hechos todos de la misma tierra por un solo Obrero; y por mucho que nos engañemos, tan querido es para Dios el pobre campesino como el poderoso príncipe.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Deceived Us

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study"

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• When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

  George Eliot

  Doors, Experts, Tools

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.22

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• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

  George Herbert

  Tools, Quarrels

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• In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

  Adam Smith

  Running, Long, May

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.28

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