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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#both #conditions #development #men #metropolis

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#any #change #conservative #contrast #could

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bodyguard #class #economy #first #first class

I consider myself a court jester - motivator. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#court #i #motivator #myself

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#because #businesses #economy #everyone #got

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. ↗

— Claude Simon

#begin #big #chore #complete #continue

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#business #concerned #contingent #design #engineering

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing. ↗

— Paul Simon

#growing #hope #i #i can #major