The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. 11/17/2025
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. 11/17/2025
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. 11/17/2025
You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives. 11/17/2025
A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. 11/17/2025
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. 11/17/2025
City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself. 11/17/2025
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. 11/17/2025
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. 11/17/2025
Seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it’s comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you’re very lucky, a plane ride away. 11/17/2025
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. 11/17/2025
The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition. 11/17/2025
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. 11/17/2025
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. 11/17/2025
listen to yourself “after you have moved and woken up good!” – “The” Trainer Outdoor Training Specialist /Consultant 11/16/2025
When we first wake up up, there is a tendency to have a “discussion with ourselves” and we are not clear headed so we are likely to make a “deal with ourselves to cancel anything we want to accomplish for the day that seems too difficult!” We need to allow more time for us to get up and move around some because “movement” of our bodies helps us to “THINK MORE CLEARLY!” – “The” Trainer Outdoor Training Specialist /Consultant 11/16/2025
we also must be aware of our own first impressions to ourselves every morning upon awakening… 11/16/2025
At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that’s being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression. 11/16/2025
It’s going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel. 11/16/2025
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, “It’s really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn’t get that job, because you did well that means they’ll keep bringing you back in.” But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling. 11/16/2025
I’ve always loved Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. There’s this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster’s first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We’re seeing the world as if for the first time. That’s just fascinating. 11/16/2025
The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that’s the first impression it’s going to make. And very often it’s portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did. 11/16/2025
There’s an expression in life: “You can only make one first impression.” And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it’s ready to go. It’s not a set rule, but I think it’s the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it’s good, not because you found it. 11/16/2025
I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. 11/16/2025
I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure – and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. 11/16/2025
For me it’s always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression. 11/16/2025
You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky ‘Juno’ lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled. 11/16/2025
Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is. 11/16/2025
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man’s look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. 11/16/2025
A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you’ll never be forgiven if you don’t live up to it. 11/16/2025
