Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

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• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Place

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• We're all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just hate the tops of them. I work out and they still never look good enough for me. So, over the years I've learned to dress to make myself feel better.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hate

• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Brave