#flourish

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#doing #dramatic #drawn #eye #flourishes

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#create #creative #dance #dancers #environment

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? ↗

— Leon Kass

#flourish #individual #mean

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#flourish #nation #patriots #strife #then

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. ↗

— David Cassidy

#better #better life #both #flourished #i

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#arrived #bother #busy #down #flourished

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fiction #flourish #genre #genres #literary

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find. ↗

— Cornel West

#admiration #adoration #apply #attraction #basic

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cultures #darwinian #ever #every #flourished