#po

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#failure #lighting #power #sometimes

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#office #politics #weak

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#give #name #our #reality

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappointments #full #naive

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#consider #i #might #reconciliation #world

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charming #delightful #exploitation #innocence #offers

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interpreting #observe #observing #possible #without

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#hypocrisy #outside