#cons

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch? ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#consulting #gives #god #him #honoring

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#camera #directing #doing #else #everything

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#i #special #stick #techniques

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#matter #men #problem #women

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#concrete #consist #essentially #existing #only

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

The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people. ↗

— Steve Crocker

#consisted #grew #group #initial #network

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consequences #country #democracy #did

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#both #bulwark #certain #constitution #expression

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#concerned #democracy #development #distinguished #domestic