Ellen Goodman Quotes



Best Making Sense Quotes by Ellen Goodman

Making Sense Quotes

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

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“Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”

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“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.”

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“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.”

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“We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.”

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