
Les prolégomènes (Al-muqaddima)
Une collection de citations sur le thème de métier, pluie, bien-être, tout.
Les prolégomènes (Al-muqaddima)
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
17 février 1941
Journal littéraire, Une galerie de portraits monumentale
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Gomorra : Dans l'empire de la Camorra, 2006, Première partie, Femmes
Il est ici question de l'opinion de Fénelon.
L'Éducation des femmes par les femmes, 1885, Fénelon
La Tragédie classique, 1996, La « discipline » classique
“Dieu me pardonnera, c'est son métier!”
Sur son lit de mort
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Répondant à la question d'un journaliste : « Quel est votre souci majeur quand vous faites un film ? »
Extrait d'un article intitulé Fait divers.
Presse
Régimes spéciaux de retraites
Ouvrages, Les Modérés (1936)
Idées sur la philosophie de l'histoire de l'humanité, 1791
Discours lors de la réception de Leurs Majestés Impériales. Visite de S. M. l'empereur Napoléon III à la Bourse de Lille, 23 septembre 1853
Discours de réception du prix Nobel de littérature le [7, décembre, 2006]
Articles
I once read a book about a reporter written by a reporter who described the life as always running in front of a thresher. I thought it was the most accurate description I'd read. Sometimes people got tired of running in front of the machine, sometimes they got pulled in and were left shredded. Sometimes they managed to get out from in front of it. They used their expertise in the business to seek the steadiness of a job as a person who handled the media rather than was part of it.
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Citation attribuée au personnage de Jack McEvoy, lui-même journaliste, narrateur principal du roman policier Le Poète, paru en 1996.
Sur le métier de journaliste
Ma confession (1975)
Lettre datée du 1er octobre 1958 adressée à Jack Scott du Vancouver Sun (il s'agit en effet d'une lettre de motivation écrite en état d'ébriété, N.D.L.R.)
Correspondance, 1958
“La médecine est un métier dangereux. Les clients qui ne meurent pas peuvent porter plainte.”
Radio, Médecins sans diplômes
“La chose la plus importante à la vie, c'est le choix du métier.”
Propos tenus après les émeutes de banlieues de novembre 2005
Propos, L'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
Io so. Ma non ho le prove. Non ho nemmeno indizi.
2015
Citations de Chris Marker
Ouvrages, L'Argent (1928)
Le premier jour, Marc Lévy, Pocket, 2009, 170
Le premier jour, 2009
Citations de ses romans, La Peur géante, 1957
Comprendre le pouvoir. L'indispensable de Chomsky, 2006, Premier mouvement
Mermoz
Mermoz, 1938
Variante: Heureux sont les hommes qui rencontrent soudain, dans la révélation d'un métier, l'assouvissement de leurs désirs jusque là incertains et la règle pour laquelle ils sont faits. Plus heureux encore ceux qui, riches de passions contradictoires, trouvent dans ce métier leur propre clef, la solution de leur être intérieur et le point d'équilibre entre les tendances qui les déchirent !
Tome 2, Des qualités de l'écrivain et des compositions littéraires
Returning to Reims
Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry (1943)
“Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.”
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“Il y a peu d'honnêtes femmes qui ne soient lasses de leur métier.”
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
A Bachelor's Establishment (1842)
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Catherine Ringer tient ces propos en réponse à la question « Quelle image pensez-vous avoir dans le public ? », au cours d'un entretien motivé par la sortie récente de son premier album en solo, Ring n'Roll, au début du mois de mai 2011.
Sur la longévité de certains artistes