The Right to Bear Checks
Is Global Inequality Rising?
Political Leanings of Popular News Programs (U.S.)
Higher Education Statistics and Demographics (U.S.0
Martha Bayles
as [Ralphp] Ellison went on to argue, American diversity and unease are more often than not the parents of American excellence.
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Perverse in the Popular, The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Culture, Organizational Behavior
Neuman / Martha Bayles
Neuman surveyed the available evidence and found what advertisers and educators already knew–that most human beings are “obdurate, impenetrable, resourcefully resistant” toward any message, regardless of medium, that does not fit “the cognitive makeup of the minds receiving it.”
Wrote Neuman: “The mass citizenry, for most issues, simply will not take the time to learn more or understand more deeply, no matter how inexpensive or convenient … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Perverse in the Popular, The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Personality / Behavior
Japan and U.S. Productivity Comparison
Americans Moving Less Often
Mark Kingwell
Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom–or some combination of all three?
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Commitment, Management
Mark Kingwell
All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Life, Strategy
Mark Kingwell
Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.
Content: Quotation | Sources: The Wilson Quarterly, What Does It All Mean? | Subjects: Knowledge, Wisdom
Mark Kingwell (stating old philosophical maxim)
All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subject: Life
Mark Kingwell
Our most basic choice, the one that ground all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom — or some combination of all three? That’s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of.
Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Accountability, Life