#mentality

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cheap #i #like #point #sentimentality

Thus, seeking to produce a typology of forms of the art of government, La Mothe Le Vayer, in a text from the following century (consisting of educational writings intended for the French Dauphin), says that there are three fundamental types of government, each of which relates to a particular science or discipline: the art of self-government, connected with morality; the art of properly governing a family, which belongs to economy; and finally the science of ruling the state, which concerns politics. What matters, notwithstanding this typology, is that the art of government is always characterized by the essential continuity of one type with the other, and of second type with the third. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#art

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke... ↗

— Ram Mohan

#joke #mentality #people #perception #speak

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#mentality #vision #art

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sentimentality #weep #weeping #love

The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#mentality #mind #moment #experience

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#imagination #invisible #mentality #imagination

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved. ↗

— Joyce Johnson

#kerouac #love #rescue-mentality #sacrifice #love

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assumption #bias #blame #extroversion #extroverts