Quotes About Cultivation

Whatever one cultivates, is what one becomes.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

cherries grown in Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, Hawaii, Jamaica and Ethiopia.

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

Aku akan menanamkan bibitbya dan Jepang akan memupuknya.

As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, 'Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.' I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can't be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence. They want to be told this publicly. They want to know that those 'at the top' are on their side. They feel recognized and cultivated. For it to develop and have an impact it must hear that the world does not ridicule it.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

The Japanese believe building a great organization is like growing a tree; it takes twenty-five to fifty years.

That's why I think that cultivation, 'becoming a real human being,' really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a scale never required before. It's a very old idea that may actually hold the key to a new age of 'global democracy.

Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Si tout amour prendroye racine J'en planteroye dans mon Jardin ("Indien elke liefde wortel schieten zou, dan zou ik ze planten in mijn tuin")

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

Cultivation, old civilization, beauty, history! Surprising turnings of streets, shapes of venerable cottages, lovely aged eaves, unexpected and gossamer turrets, steeples, the gloss, the antiquity! Gardens. Whoever speaks of Paris has never seen Warsaw. [...] Whoever yearns for an aristocratic sensibility, let him switch on the great light of Warsaw.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.