#cult

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#considered #difficult #i #i love #know

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#family #french #issue #melting #melting pot

I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#destruction #difficulty #escape #father #had

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities. ↗

— Sam Dash

#because #could #difficult #fired #getting

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#culture #highest #moral #ought #our

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#hardest #know #least #menial #most

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#beautiful #beautiful life #before #better #difficult

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed. ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#culture #art

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#culture #idols #janis #janis joplin #joplin