Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

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• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
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• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  

  Usher
  • Children
  • Beauty
  • Relax

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Night
  • Technology
  • Morning

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Win

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Up
  • Important
  • Done

• The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Universe
  • Luck
  • Bird

• ESPN truly is a game changer and has the ability to unite the world through sports, which is something I'm incredibly passionate about.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • World
  • Game
  • Sports

• I was a simple kid who was thrown into the wonderful world of show business. I've loved every moment. These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it’s funnier.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • World
  • Business
  • Remember

• When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Day

• A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • World