Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,
Parakala Prabhakarx.comSociety which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ~ John W. Gardner,
"Do you often come across people for whom, all their lives, a "subject" remains a "subject," divided by watertight bulkheads from all other "subjects," so that they experience very great difficulty in making an immediate mental connection between [any two subjects]" https://t.co/c30fhhKC8Y
I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to articulate my definition of “Life’s Work”
Then @GrahamDuncanNYC pointed me to this, by the incredible poet David Whyte
Hard to imagine improving this discussion: https://t.co/WQaz9rDCws