“For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.” ThinkingWorldWayHas BeensArtBodyFormEatingPerformancesCancerVariousMy WayDisorderLandingEating DisorderPromiscuityPerformance Art Author:Eve Ensler
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.” IfsWantWritingYearsBelieveHumansReadingEasyForgetPleasureEffortTalkingPracticeAmountWalkingTruth IsActivityBehaviorEatingPerformancesFundamentalsInstantExpertsGratificationTemptingHuman ActivityReading And WritingTuningInstant Gratification Author:Donald A. Norman
“...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.” LittlesHappensSleepBreakGoes OnHabitEatingPerformancesCrisisRoutineWashingWhatever HappensBreak ThroughLife Goes On Author:Daphne du Maurier