|
291e758
|
You can reduce your anxiety somewhat by facing the fact that there isn't a mechanic alive who doesn't louse up a job once in a while. The main difference between you and the commercial mechanics is that when they do it you don't hear about it--just pay for it, in additional costs prorated through all your bills. When you make the mistakes yourself, you at least get the benefit of some education.
|
|
motorcycle-maintenance
maintenance
learning-from-mistakes
mechanics
|
Robert M. Pirsig |
|
4976c8a
|
Few modern social infrastructures are natural, however, and in densely populated areas even beaches and forests require careful engineering and management to meet human needs. This means that all social infrastructures require investment, whether for development or upkeep, and when we fail to build and maintain it, the material foundations of our social and civic life erode.
|
|
social-infrastructures
maintenance
|
Eric Klinenberg |
|
4ab0fc2
|
It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary
|
|
maintenance
graves
|
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
|
eeff0b7
|
Invisible worlds, or worlds that are supposed to be invisible interest me. I like to see the effort it takes for some people to make things go smoothly for other people. Don't misunderstand me; mostly I'm part of the invisible world myself.
|
|
work
unseen-work
maintenance
|
Jeanette Winterson |
|
aea5ab4
|
Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.
|
|
war
killed
maintenance
ncos
officers
military
|
Garth Ennis |