#object

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#motivation #objectivity #art

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect the way she feels when they next make love. She is angry for a number of good reasons that may have nothing to do with this particular man's intentions. The exchange reminds her that, in spite of a whole fabric of carefully woven equalities, they are not equal in this way that is so crucial that its snagged thread unravels the rest. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of their material desires: what economists call "maximising utility". The ultimate objective of mankind is economic growth, and that is maximized only through raw, and lightly regulated, competition. If the rewards of this system are spread unevenly, that is a necessary price. Others on the planet are to be regarded as either customers, competitors or factors of production. Effects upon the planet itself are mere "externalities" to the model, with no reckoning of the cost - at least for now. Nowhere in this analysis appears factors such as human cooperation, love, trust, compassion or hatred, curiosity or beauty. Nowhere appears the concept of meaning. What cannot be measured is ignored. But the trouble is that once our basic needs for shelter and food have been met, these factors may be the most important of all. ↗

— Carne Ross

#consumerism #cooperation #economics #freedom #laissez-faire

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#art #despite #entering #into #objective

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ↗

— Robert Brault

#good #good intentions #intentions #most #object

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. ↗

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#first #foremost #i #important #love

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ↗

— Susanne Langer

#feeling #nature #objectification

I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#another #answer #been #building #cannot

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #deal #exist #i #i do

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me. ↗

— Courtney Love

#connected #day #expected #i #kind