Sentences with phrase «cog in a machine»

Bertrand Russell (1968) warned against the dangers of encouraging people to see themselves and others as cogs in a machine - like world.

His error was a result of his times when new industrialised means of production appeared to treat workers as just cogs in a machine owned by others.

Even if they become sick, they grind on like cogs in a machine, year after year.

Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this week.

While she's eventually a major cog in this machine of a plot, this is still a boys» club of a movie.

It reduced workers to mere cogs in a machine.

But there are countless little bits and pieces like this all over society — tiny cogs in the machine which have always moved along nicely but now require some legal work to keep them going.

A major cog in the machine so to speak.

You are the answer to this company's problems, you are the missing link that they need, the vital cog in the machine which will keep it well oiled and running better than ever before.

Regarding the dabate about playing 3 at the back and using the fullbacks as wingbacks, I was wondering how this accomodates Son who is a vital cog in our machine at the moment.

It's when McDonagh takes it further than you dared expect that you start to notice the writing, and begin to see the delicate layers of dialogue and the tiny cogs in his machine.

Rather than seeing your coworkers as other cogs in the machine, get to know them as people, even if it's just for a few seconds in the morning.

Authors are merely cogs in the machine, cogs they feel are interchangeable.

For example, creating too many rules will make employees feel as though they have no control over their own jobs — as if they're nothing but cogs in a machine.

«It's the biggest cog in our machine,» Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick says of Compass Group.

Science as the only begetter of truth would shatter ethics as it did in Nuremberg, Bykivnia, and Shanghai, leaving a justice that reduces human beings to biological cogs in a machine of means.

I happened to be teaching at the University of California at the height of the youth revolt against what they believed was a society that wanted to turn them into cogs in a machine.

tweak one or two, and this could be called «how to be a good teacher» (I say this as a longtime jaded cog in the machine....

The company pulls in gross sales of $ 9 million, but Strackbein points out that numbers can be deceiving in the meat industry, and the company is not a large cog in the machine.

Art Briles is probably a year away from landing a gig somewhere, and there are still innumerable cogs in the Baylor machine that were there when it all went down and are still there and would be a silent and / or apathetic cog in the machine if it went down that same road again.

In the same way that Gini Wijnaldum was often the under - stated cog in the machine that made Liverpool tick last season, so too is Jean - Michael Seri the unseen, yet vital midfielder that world football seems to have only just taken notice of.

While her job is to make a multinational company more efficient by cutting jobs, Winfried is on a subversive mission to save her from becoming an icy corporate cog in the machine of capitalism.

Each cast member is a perfect cog in the machine as the end result of the movie wouldn't work if not for each actor and actress hitting their marks like clockwork and perfectly delivering their dialogue.

Linking each of the core elements of the Paris Agreement to avoid duplication and fit them together like interlinked cogs in a machine.

Project Treble can't guarantee that OEMs and carriers w still drag their feet on updates, but there will be one less cog in the machine to complicate things.

In contrast, we argue that a general accountant resume should be well - worded with action verbs that help to promote the idea of the applicant as an individual and not an educated cog in a machine.

Couldn't quite find the killer ball today, but still one of the most important cogs in the machine.

Perhaps this is too much information sometimes, but our employees see each other as unique people, not just cogs in the machine, and work more creatively and collaboratively together.

While the movie is world - building and setting up Black Panther for inevitable sequels and appearances in other movies, it doesn't feel like a mere cog in the machine.

The philosopher Hegel believed that institutions are something from which the Spirit has flown, and that they use free people as cogs in their machines.

Being a cog in a machine is neither fun nor fruitful.

Gascoigne said this choice was part of an effort to appreciate employees as people rather than just cogs in the machine.

You're just a cog in a machine who gets paid for number of hours worked.

We can't treat them like robots or cogs in a machine.

We want them to know that they're important to us not just because they're at work uh, like they were cogs in a machine.

They should simply be a cog in the machine rather than the entire machine.

Much of that time is wasted, but they are an important cog in the machine that is our economy.

We aren't here to earn our way, we're not just pew fodder or a cog in a machine.

They're genetically engineered to be fit for doing the work that must be done, and so nobody feels alienated by being reduced to a cog in a machine or anything like that.

He can not then be rightly treated as a cog in a machine, or a sample of a racial blood - stream, or one of the individual atoms that make up a nation.

What is more, it enables him to serve the good not as a cog in a machine but as a free and creative being.

If we think like that it logically follows that we can legitimately treat other people as cogs in a machine.

When so - called ministry is reduced to a performance and packaged programs, people feel like a consumer or cog in a machine.