Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle. ”

For millennials especially, mobility has become a key factor in selecting a potential career path and in choosing an appropriate employer. ”

Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set. ”

Trends such as skills imbalances, the gig economy, and digitization are transforming work so quickly that policy creation is lagging behind. ”

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ”

Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day. ”

I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life. ”

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. ”

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself. ”

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.' ”