#or

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means. ↗

— Tre Cool

#childhood #i #means #normal #normal childhood

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. ↗

— Tre Cool

#i #over #parents #relationship #sister

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. ↗

— Tre Cool

#another #art #art form #become #doing

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#becomes #between #broken #character #discrepancy

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk. ↗

— Steven Wright

#bridge #george #hear #him #radio

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#also #art #cannot #generally #individual

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#concerned #contrasted #discipline #far #forms

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature