“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.” WorldNeedsHas BeensReasonGivenResultsQualityMoralStruggleModernSecurityPossibilityGoes OnMachinesMethodProductionsFoolishChosenEaseNo ReasonStarvationEnergeticGood NatureOverwork Book:In Praise of Idleness Source: In Praise of Idleness
“One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.” PeopleThinkingQualityAcceptingBuildingGoes OnDependsReactionsConsiderationVaryMonstrosity Author:Joseph Rykwert
“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingSometimesStoriesRealitySeemsMovingTermQualityTakenGoes OnMoodDiscovering Author:Brian Evenson
“I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.” WritingQualityGoes OnSpeechBuiltSuspectsSpeech And Writing Author:Oliver Sacks
“I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.” GivenQualityHavensTelevisionGoes OnScriptsNever Say Never Author:Nicolas Cage
“Before Community started up again for the season, we had the chance to go on a long family vacation where we drove for ten days down the coast. I was like wow, look at these people that I am related to and am actually spending some quality time with! So it was great to be with them, but now my schedule is really difficult so I have to take what I can get.” PeopleLooksLongI CanDifficultCommunityChanceQualityGoes OnTenSeasonsSpendingRelatedWowVacationSchedulesCoastQuality TimeFamily Vacation Author:Joel McHale
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLongDesireTermQualityGoes OnNegativeFocusedAppealsDedicationObsessivePsychosisSingle Mindedness Author:Callum Keith Rennie