"The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself."

-- Herbert Marcuse

#Rejection Quotes #Effort Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that youâ€™re not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - itâ€™s a result of that collision. Youâ€™ve got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If youâ€™ve made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. Thatâ€™s how you become valuable.”
“Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?”
“A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.”
“I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.”
“Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.”
“With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.”

Source : "Within the Context of No Context". Book by George W. S. Trow, 1980.

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