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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley quote.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
— Charles Horton Cooley

art

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it. - Charles Horton Cooley quote.
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
— Charles Horton Cooley

power persuasion

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. - Charles Horton Cooley quote.
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
— Charles Horton Cooley

heroism aspiration

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. - Charles Horton Cooley quote.
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation.
— Charles Horton Cooley Human Nature and the Social Order

duty

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 cooperation. - Charles Horton Cooley quote.
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 cooperation.