Gary Kushner quote: "You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But that may be a way to keep employees more engaged."

If I can do things as an employer to make the work interesting, to make it a 'we work hard/we play h...
GARY KUSHNER

It's not even necessarily so much that happy employees are good for business. It is, from [Rich Ande...
GARY KUSHNER

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk cal...
RACHEL KUSHNER

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the...
JARED KUSHNER

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
HAROLD KUSHNER

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same con...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of excl...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York...
TONY KUSHNER

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not b...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Y...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
JARED KUSHNER

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresi...
TONY KUSHNER

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
TONY KUSHNER

I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offe...
JARED KUSHNER

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters decidin...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are i...
RACHEL KUSHNER

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
JARED KUSHNER

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable a...
TONY KUSHNER

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms ...
TONY KUSHNER

In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the ver...
RACHEL KUSHNER

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reade...
RACHEL KUSHNER

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decide...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episo...
TONY KUSHNER

I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to exp...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende...
RACHEL KUSHNER

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place f...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva...
TONY KUSHNER

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mor...
TONY KUSHNER

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
TONY KUSHNER

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting...
TONY KUSHNER

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th...
JARED KUSHNER

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi...
TONY KUSHNER

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo...
TONY KUSHNER

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're us...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but...
RACHEL KUSHNER

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens...
TONY KUSHNER

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v...
TONY KUSHNER

[Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometim...
TONY KUSHNER

Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ...
TONY KUSHNER

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Most consumer advocates recommend, for a cable company, you want to call once every six months and n...
AVIYA KUSHNER

Sometimes they'll say, 'No, this is only for new customers,' but sometimes there's some bargaining r...
AVIYA KUSHNER

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of...
TONY KUSHNER

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln'...
TONY KUSHNER

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind...
TONY KUSHNER

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of hom...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as ha...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.
RACHEL KUSHNER

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and co...
TONY KUSHNER

Belize: Hell or heaven?

[Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]

Belize: Lik...
TONY KUSHNER

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
HAROLD KUSHNER

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is ...
HAROLD KUSHNER

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something in...
HAROLD KUSHNER

The ability to forgive and the ability to love are the weapons God has given us to live fully, brave...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness
HAROLD KUSHNER

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. Th...
RACHEL KUSHNER

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his...
TONY KUSHNER

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one r...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Proust is a huge author for me.
RACHEL KUSHNER

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights...
TONY KUSHNER

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appe...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America&...
TONY KUSHNER

Peter Kaplan was a giant.
JARED KUSHNER

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a p...
TONY KUSHNER

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
TONY KUSHNER

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topi...
RACHEL KUSHNER

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and viole...
RACHEL KUSHNER

The first day he came in and sang on 'Set Me Free,' we were like, 'OK, this is the guy.' That's why ...
DAVE KUSHNER

It was pretty brutal. The process sucked.
DAVE KUSHNER

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing e...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
RACHEL KUSHNER

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
TONY KUSHNER

Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on ...
TONY KUSHNER

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The...
TONY KUSHNER

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love a...
RACHEL KUSHNER

When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that wil...
HARVEY KUSHNER

No one will leave Safer America or saferamerica.com without a significant amount of training into wh...
HARVEY KUSHNER

When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that not only...
HARVEY KUSHNER

New York is the capital of the world. If you want to hit a symbol, you hit New York. It's also the c...
HARVEY KUSHNER

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming...
TONY KUSHNER

I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.
RACHEL KUSHNER

To reduce the chances of crime in your home, put a deadbolt in your door, put a peephole in your doo...
MALCOLM KUSHNER

Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

A sense of humor means looking at things from an offbeat angle.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect chan...
RACHEL KUSHNER

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to ...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the matur...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have bee...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have care...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My ...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life ...
~RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und...
GARY COHN

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's...
GARY GYGAX

Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
GARY ZUKAV

The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn...
GARY ZUKAV

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
GARY ZUKAV

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t...
GARY WEISS

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni...
GARY BAUER

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
GARY LINEKER

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT

The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and...
GARY WEISS

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ...
GARY WEISS

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t...
GARY WEISS

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri...
GARY WEISS

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger...
GARY WEISS

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i...
GARY WEISS

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent...
GARY WEISS

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ...
GARY WEISS

You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But that may be a way to keep employees more engaged.

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You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But that may be a way to keep employees more engaged.

Gary Kushner

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