#superior

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art. ↗

— David Elliott

#art #born #certain #connoisseur #judge

Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement. ↗

— Megan Webster

#pride #superiors #wisdom #inspirational

Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #humans #meddlers

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#authority #earth #free #his #law

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#goethe #humanity #men #poetry #potential

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races. ↗

— Emperor Hirohito

#depend #divine #emperor #false #japanese

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#effect #getting #good #i #i think

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#best #best way #convince #everyday #everything

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#consideration #could #deserves #existed #first

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #beliefs #could #describe #exercise