We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“[There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Institutional changes, instead of following the path of a guided arrow, head in different and often conflicting directions: a profitable operating unit is suddenly… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality through experiences… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“The top managers are defensive about these departures; they point to how safe, attractive, and up-to-date the workplace is. Rodney Everts is less defensive… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited;… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes stabylnesse?”—a lament… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
“Who needs me?” is a question of character which suffers a radical challenge in modern capitalism. The system radiates indifference. It does so in… — Richard Sennett Copy Share
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett Copy Share
