P 19 Quotes

“Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there”
― Csikszentmihaly

“...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If a person learns to enjoy and find meaning in the ongoing stream of experience, in the process of living itself, the burden of social controls automatically falls from one's shoulders.”
― Csikszentmihaly

“Doggone, I never thought I’d lose my mind.” I was startled at the time to realize this – that he had thought about it. But now that he is dead…it’s my turn to think of it – of death – and I do. I wonder how it will come to me. And when I do, I remember this moment; when my father seemed to be getting the news about his fate, about how it would b e for him, when he took it in and accepted it and was, somehow, interested in it, all at the same time, before my eyes. It was a moment as characteristic of him as any I can think of in his life, and as brave. Noble, really, I’ve come to feel.”
― Sue Miller, The Story of My Father

“La déchéance que connaît au boulot l'écrasante majorité des travailleurs naît d'une variété infinie d'humiliations, qu'on peut désigner globalement du nom de "discipline". [...] La discipline est constituée de la totalité des contrôles coercitifs qui s'exercent sur le lieu de travail : surveillance, exécution machinale des tâches, rythmes de travail imposés, quotas de production, pointeuses, etc. La discipline est ce que le magasin, l'usine et le bureau ont en commun avec la prison, l'école et l'hôpital psychiatrique.”
― Bob Black, Travailler, moi ? Jamais !