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1. "Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards." ~ Richard Sennett
2. "To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure." ~ Richard Sennett
3. "But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him." (pg-265)" ~ Richard Sennett
4. "[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." ~ Richard Sennett
5. "Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end." ~ Richard Sennett
6. "Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake." ~ Richard Sennett

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