Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

When you have nothing to lose, you have everything to gain...

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.