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company-we-keep expectations curiosity
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity. Alain de Botton
expectations people like-you
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. Rob Zombie
expectations heaven soul
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. Richard Baxter
expectations people perception
A lot of people feel trapped by circumstance, by the expectations of others or the perception that they need a lot of money. They would like to have a different direction in their lives, but they're held back by fear or desires that are incompatible with that freedom. Roz Savage
expectations shapes outlook
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations. Richard DeVos
expectations trying half
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do. William J. H. Boetcker
expectations feelings nervous
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here. Vinny Testaverde
expectations atmosphere gallery
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Will Cotton
expectations taste ashes
[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes. Richard Corliss
expectations novelty jest
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. Samuel Johnson
curiosity either interested kids questions requires students suited sustain
It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them. Tom Hatch
curiosity education entirely holy methods miracle modern short strangled
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein
curiosity kept life meant turn whatever
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
curiosity expansion inquiry
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. William Winwood Reade
curiosity information mainstream
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. Richard Powers
curiosity mind charity
The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt! Samuel Taylor Coleridge
curiosity desire demand
Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.
curiosity world connections
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. Vincent Canby
curiosity littles strive
Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. Warren Buffett