#milieu

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#everybody #fashionable #literary #made #milieu

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bit #first #i #i do #into

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#milieu #national #present #self-defense #wars

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

#chosen #friends #himself #interested #milieu

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#because #become #every #film-making #funny

Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire, settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society. ↗

— Tony Judt

#memory #milieux-de-memoire #rituals #vestiges #experience

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #behind #camera #college #college degree

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#child #creativeness #his #man #milieu