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"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"Do it or not, but do."
"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself."
"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."
Explore more quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
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