Kind Quotes - Page 114

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.

When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

I'm kind of whatever about nudity. Hopefully I wouldn't be a part of anything, whether I'm naked or not, that I didn't believe in. But I'm pretty comfortable being naked.

Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

I go around the world, working with all kinds of people who I love.

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.