Garfinkel Quotes & Sayings

Why do you always want the things that you cannot have... — Hotaru Odagiri

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being. — Esther Hicks

In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly. — Biz Stone

The more your copy sounds like a real conversation, the more engaging it will be. — David Garfinkel

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You. — Corey Taylor

Ethnomethodology, a small but influential subfield of sociology founded by Harold Garfinkel (1967), took as its project the description of how people produce orderly social conduct. Ethnomethodologists argue that orderliness is enacted as people draw on resources in their environments, resources with which to improvise meaningful action. Action is not preordered by anything that can be reduced to theoretical principles; rather, the analyst considers specific instances of organized action, and describes those. An — Victor Kaptelinin

A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent. — John P. Kotter

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. — Ellis Peters

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed. — Rem Koolhaas