Milieu Quotes

• The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Artist, Best Job

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Men, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Literature, Opinion

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

  Steven Pinker

  Discovery, Political, Intellectual

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• My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

  Alton Brown

  Real, College, Years

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• A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

  Dorothy Fields

  Moving, Should Have, Chosen

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• Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

  Shana Alexander

  Imagination, Perfection, Dancer

  Shana Alexander (2015). “Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album”, p.235, Open Road Media

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• In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Exercise, Night, Order

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother N.P. Chekhov, March 1886.

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• The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Children, Fun

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.

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• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black.

  Lewis Mumford

  Dirty, Heart, Science

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

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• It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

  Rebecca Miller

  People, World, Ridiculous

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• Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beauty, Art, Tasks

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• The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

  Neal Stephenson

  Personality, Brain, Body

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Giving Up, Book, Moving

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spring, Night, Men

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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• All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of all men, present, past and future, are one communion.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Past, Men, Communion

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• God is inexhaustibly attainable in the totality of our action.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Our Actions, Action, Totality

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Breathe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  Marcel Proust

  Fashion, Horse, Children

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• I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.

  Vanessa L Ochs

  Religious, Women, Home

  Vanessa L. Ochs (1992). “Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred”, Harvest Books

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• An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

  Pat Burns

  Hockey, Naked, Accepted

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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