Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as good as they used to be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.” — Qiguang Zhao Copy Share Image
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“The Paradox of Choice: Faced with hundreds or even thousands of profiles, we can become overwhelmed and indecisive.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a ‘human zoo,’ caging ourselves in routines, technology, and artificial environments.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it… — Wilson Mizner Copy Share Image
Much of what ails our modern life is exactly because we reduce the value of a human being to a number, say… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“It's next to impossible to slip off the radar in today's world. Sometimes the world comes looking for you all guns blazing,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Users scroll through their feeds and look for something that isn’t there— what a perfect hamster wheel: unlimited content for a lonely… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because… — John Baird Copy Share Image
I think the irony of modern life is that our data, our highly personal information, has been taken from us, but in… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“p11- when people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them they experience well being 12- we… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“The alarming lack of ideas that is recognizable in all acts of culture, politics, organization of life, and the rest is explained… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“In modern life outside of the academy, however, arguments and debates have no external review. Facts come and go as people find… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“People could look like anything. Any person with a phone managed their identity through a selection of photos whose appearances were impractical… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Your body belongs to the earth. In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“In the frenzy of modern life we lose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
“El Greco and Van Gogh shared several passions beyond art. Both were religious and disliked the materialism of their respective ages. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people. — George Ade Copy Share Image
“We scroll for meaning, but meaning grows slowly—like roots, not feeds.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“My assumption with anyone in their thirties or above is they have health issues and are on prescription medication.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching? — Samuel Hoffenstein Copy Share Image