“Work is a defining, all-consuming part of our lives. Now, more than ever, the speed at which the nature of work is changing is having an extraordinary impact on working lives everywhere.”
The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here, 2011
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As quoted in The Work of the Catholic Church in the United States of America (Nardini "Artistic" Publishing Company, 1956), p. 10.
“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Interviewed, together with his wife, at Georgetown University gotnews http://gotnews.com/ebola-czar-called-overpopulation-top-leadership-issue/ (2008)
L'amour les yeux fermés (1976)
Original: (fr) Le spectacle de la beauté qui s'incarne dans un être vivant est infiniment plus émouvant que celui de l'œuvre la plus grandiose.
Michel Henry, L'Amour les yeux fermés, éd. Gallimard, 1976, p. 48
“Culture is all the things and ideas ever devised by humans working and living together.”
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968), p. 19
“We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.”
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 82.
Signs of Change (1888), Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Context: Worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.
All other work but this is worthless; it is slaves' work — mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.
“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”