"It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology."

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Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers

David Riesman

#Generations Quotes #Ethics Quotes #Young Quotes

“The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”
“We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.”
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
“Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.”
“I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?”

Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
“Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.”
“When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.”

Source : "Biblically Speaking". Online chat, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.
“For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.”

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