Authority (n.) figures provoke a special touchiness in those who harbour the beating phantasy, and so they bring about the scene they imagine.
Authority (n.) is something people crave beyond exaggeration; as religion loses its hold, the neuroses rise.
Authority (n.) lost its last shred of Freud's innocent faith when the standard text on electrotherapy proved to be phantasy.
Authority (n.) are, as usual, more effective in criticizing one another's work than in their own productions.
A Chess master (n.) wins mostly by not doing things.
A Chess master (n.) spends a life mastering a world small enough to be finished.
A Chess master (n.) remembers a thousand games and none of the rooms they were played in.
A Chess master (n.) resigns at the point where you still think you are doing fine.
A Connoisseur (n.) learns by long comparison of many pictures, with hints, not by school; his reasons rarely convince, and a jury would not follow them.
A Connoisseur (n.) is what becomes of the man who neither stays with love nor resolves: his reflection takes a false hold, becoming reflection about love — not seducer, not husband, but connoisseur.
A Connoisseur (n.) who rates women — slender, plump, buxom — is like the money-changers in the temple court: the clatter of their words is as repulsive as coins to one entering in an exalted mood.
Connoisseur (n.) of art are often those who would like to do away with art altogether: they pose as physicians while mixing poisons, and stop new greatness by saying 'Behold, greatness already exists!'
An Efficiency expert (n.) turns wasted time into the company's time, never into yours.
An Efficiency expert (n.) is hired by the one group in the building that will not be measured.
An Efficiency expert (n.) puts unbreakable glass on all the fire alarms.
An Efficiency expert (n.) waits to make up a foursome before going through a revolving door.