Charles Horton CooleyThinkers

The Artist is one who, by definition, cannot fail... because it is a success just to be an artist.

The Hero is necessary in one's life. To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

The Leader is always the nucleus of a tendency, and (that) all social movements, closely examined, will be found to consist of tendencies having such nuclei.

Life's surface is unable of being penetrated but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

The Looking glass self is the notion that an individual's self-conception arises from a perception and interpretation of the reactions of others and an emotional feeling about that reaction.