Cultivating Quotes

• Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Society
  • Mankind
  • Bureaucracy

• Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Win
  • Relationships
  • Networking

• We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Society
  • Avoid
  • Cultivating

• I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at face value but some of the most beautiful things are not apparent at first glance. The works that stick with me and that I find to be most beautiful are often not aesthetically inviting right off the bat. So I think having an open mind and allowing the lines to blur between art, music, fashion, food, what have you, all leads to cultivating a much more open and enjoyable aesthetic sensibility.

  

  Chloe Wise
  • Aesthetic
  • Seeing
  • Sensibility

• Palestinian dispossession is inevitable because land is the vital condition for our settlement in Palestine. But since there is hardly any land which is worth cultivating that is not already being cultivated, it is found that whatever we purchase land and settle it, by necessity its present cultivators are turned away . . . In the future it will be much more difficult to purchase land, as sparsely populated land hardly exists. What remains is densely Palestinian Arab populated land.

  

  Arthur Ruppin
  • Land
  • Palestine
  • Cultivating

• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Condition
  • Mastery
  • Cultivating