#con

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#course #earth #life #most #succeed

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#consisted #europe #every #father #life

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#concern #data #misleading #particular #perspective

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#amazon #create #destruction #disorganized #economic

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#converted #conviction #into #unless #worthless

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#control #farmers #farming #glad #god

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#best #contemporary #contemporary life #dedicate #find

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#contemporary #family #i #i think #lifestyle

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #being #bright #contemporary #creates