Nikos

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out—have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance