#work

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life. ↗

— Kuo Pao Kun

#artist #artwork #country #history #tradition

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that ‘they’ will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that ‘they’ would never allow it. Who were ‘they’? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently ‘they’ were omnipotent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #servility #trade-unions #wage-labour #working-class

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. ↗

— Bill Buford

#calm #modern #pace #traditional-work #business

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to add on other values to a life that started out with just making money in mind than it is to make some personally interesting endeavor financially possible or even profitable. ↗

— Pekka Himanen

#work #business

How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” - Seth Godin, sethgodin.com ↗

— Seth Godin

#networking-marketing #social-media #business

I social network sono come l'aria. Li respiriamo e neanche ce ne rendiamo conto, visto quanto siano integrati nella nostra vita quotidiana. ↗

— Luca Conti

#social-network #business

It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also he had learned that a person could be happy with having done the best they could under the circumstances. It didn't always have to be bright and shiny and impressive to the outside observer. ↗

— Ellen Airgood

#meaningful-work #business

People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems. ↗

— James Dillehay

#mlm-books #network-marketing #network-marketing-books #business

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #poilitics #change

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#change