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“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.”

Should Kind Whole Faces Practice Industry Capitalism British

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.”

Practice Industry Becoming Driven Consumers Trapped Crash Unfair Loan Mortgage Small Parts

Author:Al Franken

“It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.”

Littles States Wisdom Politics Principles Practice Economy Impossible Industry Property Workers Liberalism Possessing Thrift

Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.”

Thinking Mean Stories Community Deals Practice Theory Industry News Ideals Management Excuse Core Familiar Lazy Agreement Fairness Piety Preoccupation Benign Passivity Autopilot Lazy Thinking

Author:Joan Didion

“You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.”

Ifs Wells Feelings Certain Pay Practice Economy Industry Promise Lays Debt Reputation Destroyed Injured Liable

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.”

Long Past Views Creativity Practice Industry Management Sacred Tired Legacy Executives

Author:Gary Hamel

“We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.”

“Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about who's real and who isn't. Study your craft and your industry, practice all the time, challenge yourself - write things you think you can't, try things you have been told you shouldn't try - leave room for surprises, and learn how to collaborate.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Looks Has Beens Made Real Challenges Rooms Practice Study Advice Source Industry Surprise Educated Crafts Challenge Yourself

Author:Karen Walton