Top 28 Matthew B. Crawford Quotes
#1. Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.
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#2. Yet this disburdening gives us fewer occasions for the experience of direct responsibility.
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#4. the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away.
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#5. It is a rare person who is naturally inclined to sit still for sixteen years in school, and then indefinitely at work, yet with the dismantling of high school shop programs
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#6. The basic design intention guiding Mercedes in the last ten years seems to be that its cars should offer psychic blow jobs to the affluent.
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#7. When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: All human beings by nature desire to know.
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#8. In what circumstances does the human element remain indispensable, and why?
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#9. The goodness of money floats free of any particular evaluations that could engage our attention and energize our activity.
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#10. What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?
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#11. Psychologists have suggested that attention may be categorized by whether it is goal-driven or stimulus-driven, corresponding to whether it is in the service of one's own will or not.
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#13. I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.
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#14. Many people are trying to recover a field of vision that is basically human in scale, and extricate themselves from dependence on the obscure forces of a global economy.
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#16. Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.
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#17. Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
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#18. Spiritedness, then, may be allied with a spirit of inquiry , through a desire to be master of one's own stuff. It is the prideful basis of self-reliance.
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#19. Anaxagoras wrote, It is by having hands that man is the most intelligent of animals.
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#20. His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on Volkswagens] is extraordinarily clear and useful. It has a human quality, as well.
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#21. The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating "hyperpalatable" foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity.
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#23. The rise of "teamwork" has made it difficult to trace individual responsibility,
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#24. to a paradox in our experience of agency: to be master of your own stuff entails also being mastered by it.
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#25. Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, what we really have is an attentional economy, if the term "economy" applies to what is scarce and therefore valuable.
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#26. We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for
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#28. Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.
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