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Cog Quotes

On feeling like a small part of something bigger

These cog quotes explore feeling like a small part of something larger, whether on a film set, inside government, or within American Businesses.

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery...

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

Quotes by Steve Gleason

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

Quotes by Scott Porter

The tech company needs to win in the war for talent. This means much greater focus on the employee, not simply as cog in the machine, but vital member of a programming team in a race against time and competitors....

Quotes by Richard Edelman

Action Quotes

We pick players on their profiles. Over the years, I've learned that, if you have one cog that's not quite right in the system, that flow of how you want to play can't work.

Quotes by Phil Neville

I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small...

Quotes by Paddy Considine

California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across...

Quotes by John M. McHugh

American Quotes

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

Quotes by John Jay Chapman

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the...

Quotes by Damien Rice

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

Quotes by Craig Venter

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

Quotes by Brad Parscale

I've become a functioning cog in the machine called The Roots, but in my youth I was comin' from a more braggadocious, egotistical perspective.

Quotes by Black Thought

American Businesses Quotes

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

Quotes by Aldo Leopold

Frequently Asked Questions

What does cog mean in these quotes?
Feeling like one small, replaceable part of a much larger system, whether on a film set or inside a large institution.
Do these quotes discuss the Postal Service?
Yes, one describes the Postal Service as a key cog in how American Businesses operate.
Is there a hopeful take on being a cog?
Yes, one reframes it as motivation - being a cog in the human machine can still mean helping and inspiring others.
Do any quotes criticize the cog mentality?
Yes, one pushes back on people who blame the machine instead of taking personal Action.
Is this topic about work specifically?
Mostly, yes - film, government, and business all appear, but the common thread is feeling like a small part of something bigger.

Others push back on the idea, arguing that purpose means refusing to just Become another interchangeable part of the machine.