#act

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#behave #demean #easily #heroes #motives

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#destruction #flawed #human-character #human-nature #nature

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nature

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#storm-scene #nature

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#character #falliability #flaws #frailty #humanity

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#music #practice #success #music

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullying #character #moral-courage #courage

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character… ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#liberty #philosophy #nature

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. ↗

— Dominique De Menil

#art #divine #menil #rothko #art