Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

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• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Successful
  • Run
  • Content

• At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.

  

  Irving Harper
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Stop
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I really like clever men who challenge you.

  

  E. L. James
  • Men
  • Challenge
  • Clever

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Chinese

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Good
  • You
  • Born

• In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

  

  Edmund S. Muskie
  • Political
  • Process
  • Anger

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Woman
  • Smart
  • Where

• I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Science
  • Understand
  • I Can

• With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.

  

  Allu Arjun

• In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Simple

• I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.

  

  Gabriel Figueroa
  • Life
  • Good
  • Light

• Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Live
  • Political

• I love that feeling. I guess I love escaping my life, really. I love going into another world and feeling for this amount of time that this is it, this is the world I'm going to live in. You feel it more during the rehearsal process.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Live
  • Eyes
  • Reflection