#act

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce. ↗

— Tommy Thompson

#half #jobs #lost #manufacturing #our

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #culture #different #forms #intellectual

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. ↗

— Jean Paul

#attracts #every #follows #friend #other

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ↗

— Jean Paul

#deeds #ennoble #good #good actions #our

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ↗

— Jean Paul

#charm #give #gives #life #moderation

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cannot #character #clearness #discover #easily

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearly #describes #discloses #his #man