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Details Of Life Quotes

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Edward T. Hall
Details Of Life, Culture, Attention

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Kent Nerburn
Details Of Life, Mindfulness, Pay
Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

George Gilder
Thinking, Details Of Life, Creating
George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.31, Regnery Publishing

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

John Stuart Mill
Mean, Details Of Life, Practice
John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.189, e-artnow

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Men, Details Of Life, Forgotten
Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy In America”, p.326, Sheba Blake Publishing

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

Stephen Batchelor
Details Of Life, Appreciate, Everyday
Stephen Batchelor (2004). “Living with the devil: a meditation on good and evil”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville
Men, Thinking, Details Of Life
Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.314, Penguin

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

Sarnath Banerjee
Details Of Life, People, Events
Source: www.guernicamag.com

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Phil Collins
Details Of Life, People, Details

For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

David Cannadine
Details Of Life, Class, Mind
David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

Carl Sagan
Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

Betty Friedan
Men, Details Of Life, Wife

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