Excitement Quote by Jane Jacobs

“Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.” quote by Jane Jacobs — Download Open image

“Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.”

Jane Jacobs

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Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can…

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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.

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The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater…

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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not…

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. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.

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I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country.

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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts…

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