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

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.

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

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.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

Well, it’s probably a good thing Anubis didn’t kiss me. I would have died all over again.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."I feel so wanted. Thanks.

What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.