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harmony

da Peter Herrmann's Blog, posted in joys - what we usually take for it, quotes
Es ist immer ein Zusammengehen und ein … auf der einen Seite genau wissen, was man möchte und im selben Moment dennoch offen sein. In der Vorstellung oder im Konzert bleibt die Freiheit, diese Offenheit fuer den Moment, und zwar fuer den Moment von jedem von uns: was kommt nicht dazu, oder was bestimmt der Moment, was bestimmt der Raum, … also ich habe immer das Gefühl, mit ihm ist es eigentlich dies Ideal man hat aus den feinsten Materialiden und mit dem perfektesten Handwerk eine Teppich geknüpft und dann laesst man ihn fliegen – und er fliegt tatsächlich.
(Waltraud Maier)

… the most wonderful thing … you get to the point you speak the same language where you hear the music the same way and an orchestra will only play music, and not as a collection of notes when everybody can really hear the music in their head in a very similar way.

(Daniel Barenboim)

From a documentary on Daniel Barenboim

Management

da Peter Herrmann's Blog, posted in general, quotes

Management by Champignon

Employees are left in the dark; occasionally throwing manure on them – and as soon as somebody shows him/herself the person is dismissed.

Management by Crocodile

To be up to the neck in the mud – but brag.

Management by Helicopter

To hover above everything, land from time to time and cause quite a stir – and vanish into thin air.

Management by Herodes

Searching intensively for the right successor – and fire him/her.

Management by Ping-Pong

Processing with everything by passing it from one department to another and back again – so that with the time they are solved automatically.

Management by Robinson

All are waiting for Friday

(Translated from SOZIALWIRTSCHAFT Aktuell 12/2002. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft)

Pillage – Plundering

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Le grand risque est que les gens croient qu’il y a création de richesses la ou il n’y a qu’enrichissement. L’argent ne peut se faire que sur la captation d’une valeur ajoutée. La rémunération du capital n’est pas un gain pour la collectivité, quand elle ne correspond pas à une production de biens ou services supplémentaires. Ce n’est qu’un mécanisme de pillage sophistiqué.

(Guy Hascoët: L’économie solidaire au cœur des nouvelles régulations économiques – I found it in Mai 2002 on http://www.social.gouv.fr/economie-solidaire/economie/econo_sol/ascoet.htm)

Loss of character – Charakterverlust

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Charakterverlust – Verlust der geprägten Eindeutigkeit des Ich in der Gegenwart zwischen Vergangenheit und des Hinübertragens in die Zukunft

Loss of character – Loss of the embossed clearness of the I (the personality) between past and carrying on into the future

Wenn eine heftige Liebe gefühlt wird, so geht man eben zum Analytiker und stirbt nicht dafür.

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If one feels an intense love, one goes to the psychoanalyst instead of dying for it.
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… weil dieses Ich gewissermaßen ein Ballast ist, der ihnen das Fortkommen innerhalb der gesellschaftlichen Riesenmaschine nur schwer machen könnte. Man könnte sogar soweit (.) sagen, dass in diesem Prozess die Menschen, die sich all dem anpassen nur um ihrer Selbsterhaltung willen eben in diesem Prozess der Anpassung genau dieses selbe ich, dieses Selbst verlieren, dass sie eigentlich erhalten wollen — darin liegt die satanische Dialektik …
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… because the I (the personality) is in some way a burden, that could make progressing within this societal mammoth only difficult, one could even go further, saying that with this process the human beings, who adapt themselves just in order of self-preservation  loose within exactly this process of adaptation themselves, this personality which they actually want to preserve — with this we see the satanic dialectics

Where we are standing

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From one of the Great Works of European Literature (here for the English), written by Victor Hugo and published in 1862; and there is still so much in it “from today”.

For a less “poetical account” see the recent report by OXFAM: A EUROPE FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW

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CHORUS
Look down, look down
Don’t look ‘em in the eye
Look down, look down
You’re here until you die

1ST CONVICT
The sun is strong
It’s hot as hell below

CHORUS
Look down, look down
there’s twenty years to go.

2ND CONVICT
I’ve done no wrong
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer

CHORUS
Look down, look down
Sweet Jesus doesn’t care

3RD CONVICT
I know she’ll wait
I know that she’ll be true

CHORUS
Look down, look down
They’ve all forgotten you

4TH CONVICT
When I get free
You won’t see me
Here for dust

CHORUS
Look down, look down
Don’t look ‘em in the eye.

5TH CONVICT
How long, O Lord
Before you let me die?

CHORUS
Look down, look down
You’ll always be a slave
Look down, look down
You’re standing in your grave.

JAVERT
Now bring me prisoner 24601
Your time is up
And your parole’s begun
You know what that means.

VALJEAN
Yes, it means I’m free.

JAVERT
NO! It means you get
Your yellow ticket-of-leave
You are a thief.

VALJEAN
I stole a loaf of bread.

JAVERT
You robbed a house.

VALJEAN
I broke a window pane.
My sister’s child was close to death
And we were starving.

JAVERT
You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law.

VALJEAN
I know the meaning of those 19 years
A slave of the law.

JAVERT
Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
Yes, 24601.

VALJEAN
My name is Jean Valjean!

JAVERT
And I’m Javert!
Do not forget my name
Do not forget me
24601

CHORUS
Look down, look down
You’ll always be a slave
Look down, look down
You’re standing in your grave.

Les Miserables – Prologue Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Intelligence instead of (Skills)”Knowledge”

da Peter Herrmann's Blog, posted in academic life - living in academia, quotes

Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world’s thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

Isaac Asimov: Puzzles of the Black Widowers (1990)

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As I’ve often said, you can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.

Paul Krugman

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We Have Such A Wealth of Unanswered Questions

Craig Mello

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The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Joseph Stiglitz