The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
~ Charles Dickens
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Category Archives: 0059 – Quote Unquote
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There’s nothing harder in the world than making art, particularly when no one understands it.
~ Gustave Courbet
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A stable economic system requires two components: growth and inclusivity. Economic growth matters because most people want their lives to improve every year.
~ Sam Altman
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
~ Franz Kafka
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Religions get lost as people do.
~ Franz Kafka
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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The cultivation — even celebration — of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today’s culture of complaint.
~ George Will
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Full in-boxes and endless meetings are not intrinsic parts of office work in a digital world; they’re instead a response to an unexpected crisis that subsequently spiralled out of control. The turmoil in knowledge work following the arrival of the pandemic showed the unsustainability of this state of affairs.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.
~ Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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