Erving Goffman Quotes
When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.Erving Goffman
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
Taylor Swift -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
E. W. Howe -
I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
Edie Falco -
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
Ian Somerhalder
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
Nathan Outteridge -
A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
Ramon Rodriguez -
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
Nathan Fielder
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
Yo-Yo Ma -
School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.
Verite -
Example is not the main thing. It is the only thing. That is, if the one giving the example is not saying to himself, 'Behold I am giving an example.' That spoils it. Anyone thinking of the example he will give to others has lost his simplicity. Only as a man has simplicity can his example influence others.
Albert Schweitzer -
As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein -
At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.
Cyrus Broacha -
And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.
Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
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Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
Garry Winogrand -
People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.
Jorge Garcia -
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
George Whitefield -
And we danced;Out there on that empty hardwood floor.The chairs up and the lights turned way down lowThe music played, we held each other close.And we danced.Like no one else had ever danced before.I can't explain what happened on that floor.But the music played,We held each other close,And we danced.Yeah, we danced.
Brad Paisley -
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
Eleanor Catton -
When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.
Erving Goffman