Richard Sennett Quotes

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone