“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
- Catherine Drinker Bowen

"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
- Peter Weir

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"Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work."
Albert Einstein

"Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist."
Richard Nixon

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“When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.”
Pat Riley, Basketball Coach

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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Gustav Flaubert (French writer, 1821-1880)

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"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present."
Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Its weird how certain little things pick up important meanings in your life. Representational, introspective, historical, or otherwise.

( Late Night Quote )

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"Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a such a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others."

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons.

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Professor: When I give you a test, I'm looking to see whether you're terminally dumb or a good barfer.

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"We all live in a state of profound isolation. No other human being can ever know what it's like to be you from the inside. And, no amount of reaching out to others can ever make them feel exactly what you feel. All media of communication are a by-product of our sad inability to communicate directly from mind to mind. Sad, of course, because nearly all problems in human history stem from that inability."

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics

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Anthropologists have long known that many cultures divide their world into halves: good and evil, light and dark, mind and body, for example. These divisions do not describe what people actually do, but they reveal how people think about themselve and the world. This is how cultural dualisms have power; they push us into thinking in particular ways, they define order, and they help us organize experience and ignore things that don't fit. They serve some people's interests and make it hard for the disadvantaged to understand the source of their problems, because the dualisms make their suffering seem "natural". They can therefore serve very oppressive purposes.

Many of the Dualisms in Western culture mirror a basic division between public and private that is deeply gendered, as shown in the following list:

public : private
economy : family
man : woman
rational : emotional
mind : body
historical : natural
objective : subjective
science : humanities
economics : sociology
competitive : nurturant
independent : dependent

The point is that economics has systematically defined itself as an enterprise concerned with male-gendered activites. It has defined the things women do, largely, as noneconomic.

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