#cult

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #difficult #further #look #see

Street culture is a culture of containment. Most young people do not realize that it all too often leads to a “dead end”. “Street culture,” as I am using the term, is a counterforce to movement culture. Street culture in contemporary urban reality is synonymous with survival at all costs. This world view is mostly negative, because it demands constant adjustment to circumstances that are often far beyond young people’s control or understanding, such as economics, education, housing, employment, nutrition, law, and so forth. ↗

— Haki R. Madhubuti

#street #urban-life #education

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#away #climbing #difficult #girl #kissing

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

#college #faculty #interest #loses #students

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#bad #bad time #because #been #dad

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#become #difficult #economic #isolated #like

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload. ↗

— David Cone

#big commitment #coach #commitment #difficult #difficult job

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗

— Confucius

#find #good #his #make #modesty

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ↗

— Confucius

#difficulty #first #his #interest #later