Quotes About Becoming Cynical

#1. People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Keith Haring

#2. I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

James Mark Baldwin

#4. I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game

Susan Sontag

#6. I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

Patrick DeWitt

#7. Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Brent Weeks

#9. He storms down in savage joy, to meet all the waiting blades and hate.

Richard K. Morgan

#10. The idea of bonding or whatever, with you was crazy. The idea of bonding with a total stranger, a stranger that happens to be a werewolf mind you, is beyond my ability to be reasonable about,

Quinn Loftis

#11. One does not simply ring Roland." Oh

Ilona Andrews

#12. For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So,

Daniel Wallace

#13. We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

Les Brown

#14. The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your seat, and you're obsolete unless you recreate and somehow find grace somewhere else. Another profession may not be like that.

Joan Chen

#15. Life will never meet all of our expectations. We must nonetheless accept all disappointments without becoming bitter and cynical. We must always remain mindful of the opportunity to extend kindness and work to improve our character.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#16. I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.

Anita Roddick