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«Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.»
«To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.»
«One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Criticism,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
criticize, fresh, hopeful, mood, self-criticism
«A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Character,
Power,
Purpose,
Relationships,
Thought,
Understanding
| Keywords:
altogether, comprehends, definite, exert, exerts, resisted, symbol
«If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
discrepancies, discrepancy, impression, Lack of imagination, revolts, unity
«A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.»
«The bashful are always aggressive at heart.»
«Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?»
«One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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aberration, aberrations, aversion, aversions, countenance, cruelly, excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating, faintly, for the most part, Human communication, inevitably, intercourse, in so far, isolation, partly, proclaimed, shut off, sign off, thoughtless, unwittingly
«To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| About:
Heroism
| Keywords:
aspiration, live on, No Hero, routine, sensuality, thrown
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