Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profi...t, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in g...eneral. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ultimately in employers' best interests to have their employees' families functioning smoothly. In the long run, children wh...o misbehave because they are inadequately supervised or marital partners who disapprove of their spouse's work situation are productivity problems. Just as work affects parents and children, parents and children affect the workplace by influencing the employed parents' morale, absenteeism, and productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporate America will likely be motivated to support child care when it can be shown to have positive effects on that which manag...ement is concerned about--recruitment, retention and productivity. Indeed, employers relate to child care as a way to provide growth fostering environments for young managers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consi...der a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is ra...re that productivity lasts through the years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile pro...ductivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have seen that men are learning that work, productivity, and marriage may be very important parts of life, but they are not its... whole cloth. The rest of the fabric is made of nurturing relationships, especially those with children--relationships which are intimate, trusting, humane, complex, and full of care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My name is Frankenstein, I'll admit. But it's a large family, you know, remarkable since the middle ages for productivity. There a...re offshoots everywhere. Even in America, I'm told.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. It i...sn't money, for genius seldom gets any. It isn't fame: fame is too uncertain and, more closely considered, of too little worth. Nor is it strictly for its own pleasure, for the great exertion involved almost outweighs the pleasure. It is rather an instinct of a unique sort by virtue of which the individual possessed of genius is impelled to express what he has seen and felt in enduring works without being conscious of any further motivation. It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »