Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

You don't have to talk to someone to think about them and check up on them now and again.

He that sends a foole expects one.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.