Cogs Quotes

Cogs Quote of the day

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

I don't just want to be another cog in the gears of Hollywood.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing

Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do's and don'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.

Hillary Clinton the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.