A Quote by Shoshana Zuboff

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Shoshana Zuboff

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Accepted Activities Choices Often Practice Represent Seem

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Shoshana Zuboff
American - Educator

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

Bill Barich

Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

Philip Guston

If I, as a human being and artist represent anything in the world, it is my Jewish people, and therefore Israel is the only state on our planet which I want to represent with my art and all my public activities, no matter where I live.

Evgeny Kissin

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

Nick Harkaway

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Robertson Davies

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.

Italo Calvino

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

Mario Batali

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

Jonas Mekas

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Seth Godin

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Tariq Ramadan

I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself.

Agatha Christie

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Jane Rule

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

Leopold Auer

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.