He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have t...o relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows o...ne big thing." Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean no more than that the fox, for all his cunning, is defeated by the hedgehog's one defence. But, taken figuratively, the words can be made to yield a sense in which they mark one of the deepest differences which divide writers and thinkers, and, it may be, human beings in general. For there exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, universal, organizing principle in terms of which alone all that they are and say has significance--and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory.... Their thought is scattered or diffused, moving on many levels, seizing upon the essence of a vast variety of experiences and objects for what they are in themselves, without, consciously or unconsciously, seeking to fit them into, or exclude them from any one unchanging, all-embracing, sometimes self-contradictory and incomplete, at times fanatical, unitary inner vision. The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes; and without insisting on a rigid classifica tion, we may, without too much fear of contradiction, say that, in this sense, Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happi...ness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between style and taste is never easy to define, but style tends to be centered on the social, and taste upon the i...ndividual. Style then works along axes of similarity to identify group membership, to relate to the social order; taste works within style to differentiate and construct the individual. Style speaks about social factors such as class, age, and other more flexible, less definable social formations; taste talks of the individual inflection of the social.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Corporate America will likely be motivated to support child care when it can be shown to have positive effects on that which manag...ement is concerned about--recruitment, retention and productivity. Indeed, employers relate to child care as a way to provide growth fostering environments for young managers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you stand... too low.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Americans living in England are remarkably consistent in their reactions to the English. Most of them are hurt and puzzled because... they were brought up on American neighboring patterns and don't interpret the English ones correctly. In England propinquity means nothing. The fact that you live next door to a family does not entitle you to visit, borrow from, or socialize with them, or your children to play with theirs.... To the best of my knowledge, those who have tried to relate to the English purely on the basis of propinquity seldom if ever succeed. They may get to know and even like their neighbors, but it won't be because they live next door, because English relationships are patterned not according to space but according to social status.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »