#con

I don't feel like I even need to contribute. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#even #feel #i #like #need

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school. ↗

— James Corden

#appear #been #between #confident #difference

We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#country #defines #exercise #fact #founding

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece. ↗

— Katie Couric

#conversing #doing #fun #get #having

I sentimenti sono anche il modo primo di conoscere un romanzo; e i romanzi sono il terreno di prova per conoscere il mondo, santuari dell'immaginazione dove affinare e mettere alla prova i nostri valori, le nostre scelte. I sentimenti sono lo strumento di lavoro dei romanzieri, i colori della loro tavolozza. ↗

— William Deresiewicz

#education

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#concerning #destiny #education #failure #human

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#connection #holds #like #meaning #only

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#american people #any #control #force #found

We are not consumers. For most of humanity’s existence, we were makers, not consumers: we made our clothes, shelter, and education, we hunted and gathered our food. We are not addicts. “I propose that most addictions come from our surrendering our real powers, that is, our powers of creativity.” We are not passive couch potatoes either. “It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be excited, to be enthusiastic, to be expressive. In short to be alive.” We are also not cogs in a machine. To be so would be to give up our personal freedoms so as to not upset The Machine, whatever that machine is. Creativity keeps us creating the life we wish to live and advancing humanity’s purpose as well. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#addictions #consumer-culture #consumerism #creation #creativity

This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. ↗

— Richard M. Helms

#also #any #central #contact #contemplated