“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.” ArtJobsLeftCircumstancesStandardsOrdinaryDisappearLeft Alone Author:Michael Kimmelman
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.” PeopleJobsProcessParticularTerribleOrdinaryAgentsDestructiveOrdinary PeopleHostility Book:Obedience to Authority Source: Obedience to Authority
“Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.” PeoplePersonsJobsMinutesOrdinaryMeetingsClintonSpendingWakingOrdinary PeopleIowaOrdinary Person Author:David Letterman
“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsPersonsJobsWorkFailingPositionOrdinaryAdvantagePerformancesOrganizationCreditExpectedEstablishmentInherentCompetenceCompetent Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter