Quotes about Cultivated

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. Votes: 3

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, Votes: 3

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest. Votes: 3

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. Votes: 3

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers. Votes: 3

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way! Votes: 3

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man. Votes: 3

Friendship is something that is cultivated. Votes: 2

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. Votes: 2

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste. Votes: 2

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. Votes: 2

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. Votes: 2

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. Votes: 2

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. Votes: 2

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. Votes: 2

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit. Votes: 2

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. Votes: 2

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. Votes: 2

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. Votes: 2

The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another. Votes: 2

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. Votes: 2

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions. Votes: 2

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. Votes: 2

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. Votes: 2

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. Votes: 2

Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish. Votes: 2

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God. Votes: 2

It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. Votes: 2

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. Votes: 2

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. Votes: 2

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy. Votes: 2

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. Votes: 2

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.' Votes: 2

Every head should be cultivated. Votes: 0

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop. Votes: 0

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily. Votes: 0

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage. Votes: 0

Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best. Votes: 0

Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic. Votes: 0

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there. Votes: 0

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time. Votes: 0

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners... Votes: 0

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head. Votes: 0

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors Votes: 0

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better, Votes: 0

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice. Votes: 0

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. Votes: 0

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. Votes: 0

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. Votes: 0

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour. Votes: 0

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty. Votes: 0

Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse Votes: 0

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. Votes: 0

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. Votes: 0

Malaysia-Singapore bilateral relations can blossom beautifully if cultivated and nurtured like an orchid plant. Votes: 0

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. Votes: 0

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. Votes: 0

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England Votes: 0

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied. Votes: 0

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] Votes: 0

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.... Votes: 0

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality. Votes: 0

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. Votes: 0

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. Votes: 0

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Votes: 0

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person. Votes: 0

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. Votes: 0

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others. Votes: 0

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. Votes: 0

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. Votes: 0

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. Votes: 0

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country. Votes: 0

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Votes: 0

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions. Votes: 0

Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated. Votes: 0

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. Votes: 0

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse. Votes: 0

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God. Votes: 0

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts. Votes: 0

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. Votes: 0

Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens. Votes: 0

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ... Votes: 0

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. Votes: 0

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. Votes: 0

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. Votes: 0

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. Votes: 0

Change irritation to appreciationPatience doesn't just happen, but must be cultivated. It is all a matter of attitude." Votes: 0

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. Votes: 0

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. Votes: 0

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. Votes: 0

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. Votes: 0

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. Votes: 0

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. Votes: 0

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. Votes: 0

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. Votes: 0

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated. Votes: 0

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. Votes: 0

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature. Votes: 0

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated. Votes: 0

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. Votes: 0

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. Votes: 0

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. Votes: 0

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings Votes: 0

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused. Votes: 0

Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. Votes: 0

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. Votes: 0

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. Votes: 0

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Votes: 0

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice. Votes: 0

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul. Votes: 0

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose. Votes: 0

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. Votes: 0

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. Votes: 0

The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character. Votes: 0

The more media trailed him, the more space he tried to create. He cultivated alienation and used it as a whetstone to stay sharp. Votes: 0

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. Votes: 0

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small. Votes: 0

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. Votes: 0

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. Votes: 0

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. Votes: 0

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level. Votes: 0

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization. Votes: 0

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected. Votes: 0

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them. Votes: 0

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. Votes: 0

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime. Votes: 0

You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated. Votes: 0

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. Votes: 0

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person. Votes: 0

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers. Votes: 0

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within. Votes: 0

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. Votes: 0

A cultivated wit, one that badgers less, can persuade all the more. Artful ridicule can address contentious issues more competently and vigorously than can severity alone. Votes: 0

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself. Votes: 0

A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may... Votes: 0

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. Votes: 0

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday. Votes: 0

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. Votes: 0

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come. Votes: 0

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation Votes: 0

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world. Votes: 0

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties. Votes: 0

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. Votes: 0

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated. Votes: 0

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires. Votes: 0

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. Votes: 0

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. Votes: 0

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head. Votes: 0

The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies. Votes: 0

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. Votes: 0

Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated. Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level. Votes: 0

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace. Votes: 0

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them. Votes: 0

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed. Votes: 0

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. Votes: 0

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem. Votes: 0

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other. Votes: 0

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. Votes: 0

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why? Votes: 0

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection. Votes: 0

Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. Votes: 0

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. Votes: 0

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life. Votes: 0

The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. Votes: 0

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated. Votes: 0

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry. Votes: 0

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. Votes: 0

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men. Votes: 0

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown. Votes: 0

Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Votes: 0

Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits. Votes: 0

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments. Votes: 0

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero. Votes: 0

History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality. Votes: 0

On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt every moment as if about to die of asphyxia. Votes: 0

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. Votes: 0

Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death. Votes: 0

A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine. Votes: 0

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners! Votes: 0

We're talking a very cultivated people, but I found as cultivated as they were, they were uninformed about the personages who weren't American. They knew everything about America, but much less about other countries. Votes: 0

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious. Votes: 0

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? Votes: 0

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Votes: 0

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common. Votes: 0

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad - Can he want occupation who has these? Votes: 0

In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more. Votes: 0

Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated. Votes: 0

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property. Votes: 0

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated. Votes: 0

The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue. Votes: 0

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past. Votes: 0

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart. Votes: 0

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers. Votes: 0

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. Votes: 0