#cia

There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance — the thought that you are dependent upon them. This is sure to produce an insolent and domineering manner towards you. There are some people, indeed, who become rude if you enter into any kind of relation with them; for instance, if you have occasion to converse with them frequently upon confidential matters, they soon come to fancy that they can take liberties with you, and so they try and transgress the laws of politeness. This is why there are so few with whom you care to become more intimate, and why you should avoid familiarity with vulgar people. If a man comes to think that I am more dependent upon him than he is upon me, he at once feels as though I had stolen something from him; and his endeavor will be to have his vengeance and get it back. The only way to attain superiority in dealing with men, is to let it be seen that you are independent of them. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics. ↗

— Vikram Roy

#philosophy #political #social #inspirational

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs. ↗

— Mychael Danna

#choirs #different #i #musicians #orchestras

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment. ↗

— Dimebag Darrell

#experiment #get #i #i think #musicians

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs. ↗

— Tony Romo

#back #challenge #competitor #especially #get

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#also #art #attention #carefully #classical

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you. ↗

— Serenity Rey

#gratitude #inspiration #inspirational #self-esteem #inspirational

Be in today, believe in today because yesterday has gone and tomorrow will be bright from today. ↗

— Vishal Bhojwani

#inspirational #realistic #inspirational

It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of ‘White’ reinforced attaching ‘darkness’ to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called ‘flesh’ did not match mine. ↗

— Luis Quiros

#inspirational #race-relations #social-justice #inspirational