[There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to events or other persons, and whether in the relationship itself people are 'open' to one another. The first is a cover word for measuring the other in terms of a mirror of self-concern, and the second is a cover for measuring social interaction in terms of the market exchange of confession.

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Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

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There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'--my real self--would no longer have them.

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To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.

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Το αίσθημα του "εμείς", το οποίο εκφράζει την επιθυμία να είμαστε όμοιοι, είναι ένας τρόπος να αποφεύγουν οι άνθρωποι την ανάγκη να κοιτάξουν βαθύτερα ο ένας μέσα στον άλλον

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Mots clés society psychology zeitgeist

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But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him.

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Mots clés craftsman

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We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

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