#cult

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#acted #always #art #been #conceive

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#back #culture #done #get #i

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#difficult #fiction #good #made #real

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#difficult #especially #future #prediction #very

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way. ↗

— John Elway

#been #being #better #difficult #done

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#change #deep #difficulty #every #find

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#black #black history #celebrate #commemorate #continue

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#does #dropping #glass #into #like

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#continually #controversial #difficulty #distinguishing #fascinated