What did Mason Cooley mean by: A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
+ Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Ideas, Misery, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Mason Cooley, Color, Thoughtful, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Insult, Literature, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Feelings, Rude, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Bad Luck, Exception, Luck, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Curiosity engenders both science and scandal. Feraz Zeid, August 30, 2023December 24, 2023, Mason Cooley, Curiosity, Scandal, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Music dissolves the straight and narrow. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, God, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient. Feraz Zeid, September 23, 2023December 24, 2023, Mason Cooley, Charity, Shame, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
