"People are incorrigibly themselves...." - Quote by John Updike
People are incorrigibly themselves.
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More on Human Nature
“All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal”
“I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.”
“You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.”
More on Individuality
“I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.”
“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”
“There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.”