#qualities

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

#companion #friend #himself #loves #man

Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. ↗

— David Amerland

#social-media-addiction #social-media-qualities #social-network-tropes #business

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art #beyond #define #depths #difficult

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#even #faults #hated #life #me

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#clean #detestable #i #kitchen #lives

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. ↗

— John Francis Davis

#believe #better #does #good #good qualities

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. ↗

— Morris Graves

#changing #direct #evoke #i #language

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities

I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments. ↗

— Joseph Murray

#cared #childhood #doctor #family #i

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. ↗

— Joe Baca

#also #careers #catholic #catholic school #community