Guy Standing Quotes

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

Guy Standing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 1, 1873 - February 24, 1937

Topics

InsecurityTaxWillOvercomeLaws

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

TodayPeopleWorldThinkWeirdHigh

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

John Frusciante

MusicMeThinkFeelingsPlayEven

Empowering yourself is an essential component to building mental strength and creating the kind of life you want to live.

Amy Morin

LifeStrengthLiveYourselfBuilding

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

Amar'e Stoudemire

LookStarRighteousnessSymbolDavid

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Robert Anton Wilson

GoalBecomeMasterSlaveOnlyYour

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

Michael Welch

CharacterPerformanceYouDownKnow

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

Josh Radnor

NewMoreOverLittleExistential

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

MenTearsTheatrePlaceWickedPit

I just take the fights and do what I love.

Donald Cerrone

LoveTakeJustFightsI Love

It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.

Christopher Knight

YourselfYouNothingAnythingGet

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Anthony Lewis

LawThinkAmericanLeftCIAI Think

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

Allan Guthrie

WeatherWritingNegativeYouLook

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