#sense

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#best #best way #divide #into #need

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#certain #gather #grow #i #make

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#before #fight #hitting #i #intimidate

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#attacks #head #heart #love is #passions

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#duty #family #father #first #involved

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#country #foot #i #like #love

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#any #being #danger #dependent #i

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#carried #certain #embarrassment #feel #field

Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are? ↗

— LeVar Burton

#continue #expand #give #going #i