“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.” CausesCommonImagineErrorsWorthyBe GoodImagine ThatStirringWorthy Causes Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.” KindRealReadingDifficultInterestAttentionImagineReaderFitBe GoodAll KindsEngagedBeing RealImaginaryDifficult Things Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.” FirstsHardYoungEnjoyImagineBoringBe GoodImagine ThatYoung WomenVery HappyEscorting Author:Marie Calloway
“Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.” MenWantAsksFatherInterestingImagineBalanceBe GoodPartnersAsk MeWork Life BalanceLife BalanceGood Father Author:Katie Couric
“It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.” ThinkingWorldLooksWould BeTodayPastPoliticalFunImagineCenturyCoupleMachinesScientistPhilosopherBe GoodWorld TodayTime MachineHobbesGood FunGreat PhilosophersMalthus Author:Scott D. Anthony