184 Quotes About Modern-life

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so thoroughly removed himself from the world of dependencies and obligations, he wasn't sure he still existed.

When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

One of her most reached-for truisms was that some percentage of jobs were indistinguishable from one another, as they all involved the sending of emails assessing the job itself.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

you can't reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science....

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

A city is a right place to build a business but not a right place to build a home.