"Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesnâ€™t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot."

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Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

Kevin Drum

#Fighting Quotes #Phones Quotes #Cells Quotes

“It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)”
“I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.”
“Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.”
“The dreams now were simply of staying alive.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.”
“What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.”
“I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot.”

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