Quotes About Modern

After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, I fuck therefore I am.

In the modern world there was so much safety that safety had become the chief source of danger.

Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

L'homme sensible moderne » ne souffre pas pour tel ou tel motif particulier, mais, en général, parce que rien de cette terre ne saurait contenter ses désirs.

People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

In 2016, you shouldn't have to choose between succeeding at work and being there for your family.

People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.