Casual Quote by Richard Sennett Download Open image “The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone” — Richard Sennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casual Communication Conversation Pleasure Relaxed
I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art. — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective. — Edwin Schlossberg Copy Share Image
I think human beings thrive on communication, and pubs and restaurants are a great way of communicating, a great way of enjoying each other. — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
“Content drives conversations. Conversation engages your customers. Engaging with people is how your company will survive and thrive in this newly social world.” — Ann Handley Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important. — Du Yun Copy Share Image
This is my hobby. Reaching out, getting to know other people's cultures, traveling to other people's countries. — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking. — David Plouffe 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.” — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
“Nothing about sex is casual. In the best situation, sex can create life, but more often it ruins lives. And so, it is a… — Genevieve Jack Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love watches. I have a Hublot, a Breitling, and a Cartier. Different accessories that I match together just to be comfortable and casual. — Chandler Parsons Copy Share Image
Every office interprets business casual differently. Feel out your office! — Sarah Lafleur Copy Share Image
I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers. — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become… — Donald L. Staheli Copy Share Image