Everyday Life Quotes - Page 16

• For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.

  Max Weber

  Cells, Order, Everyday

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ch. 5 (1920) (translation by Talcott Parsons)

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• Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

  Doris Salcedo

  Art, Political, Everyday

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• When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

  Bruce Feiler

  Growing Up, Everyday, Generations

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• It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Everyday, Events

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• The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

  Joshua Ferris

  Everyday, Answers, Enormous

  "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Multitasking is a part of my everyday life.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Everyday, Multitasking

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• I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

  Erin Andrews

  Jobs, Stress, Everyday

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memories, Thinking, Games

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• You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Everyday, Radicalism

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.147, Best Books on

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• I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

  Ben Schwartz

  School, Feet, Everyday

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• Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Order, Wind

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• You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down.

  Romana Kryzanowska

  People, Everyday, Complaining

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• To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Ocean, Creative, Scary

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• I am always looking for ways our government can help make everyday life easier for Ontarians, and these new polymer birth certificates do just that. Having a safe and durable birth certificate will provide more security and help protect people from fraud and identify theft.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Government, People, Everyday

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• Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Kids, Unique

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  Carl Andre

  Art, Everyday, Common

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.151, MIT Press

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• One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

  Steven Johnson

  Book, Love Is, Europe

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• The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected and policed.

  William Greider

  Everyday, Might, Quests

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• In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Space, Everyday, Enormous

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

  Grant Morrison

  Running, Children, Real

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• In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Everyday, Loveless, Substitutes

  Henri Lefebvre (2010). “Everyday Life in the Modern World: Second Revised Edition”, p.172, A&C Black

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• The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

  Huston Smith

  Challenges, Everyday, Recreation

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• You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Memories, Heart, People

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

  Bryan Magee

  Life, Feelings, Everyday

  YouTube Channel "Manufacturing Intellect"/"Heidegger and Existentialism with Bryan Magee (1977)", www.youtube.com. September 17, 2017.

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