Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love. — Howard Gardner
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — John Bowlby
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E. B. White
Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world. — Robert Greene
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. — Aelred of Rievaulx
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. — Abraham Maslow
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. — Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Feeling close and complete with someone else – the emotional equivalent of finding a home. — Amir Levine
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange. — Octavio Paz
People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. — Dr. Seuss
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. — Theodor Adorno
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. — Thomas Moore
Short Affinity Quotes
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn
Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. — William Hazlitt
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness. — William James
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it. — Erika Slezak
It is a great bond to dislike the same things. — George Santayana
I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture. — Ludacris
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. — Henry David Thoreau
There can be little liking where there is no likeness. — Aesop
I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess. — Kidada Jones
Smart Quotes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. — John C. Maxwell
When someone isn’t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don’t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. — Nouman Ali Khan
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. — Norm Crosby
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you
never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's
what I learned from selling crack. — Snoop Dogg
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people. — Stephen Hawking
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me — Nipsey Hussle
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. — Kahlil Gibran
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on. — Tuomas Holopainen
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran? — Henrique Capriles Radonski
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings. — Elena Ferrante
Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media. — Frederick Lenz
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance. — Edward Thomson
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature. — Marsilio Ficino
You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart. — George Rodger
I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else. — Robert Morgan
Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons. — Mark Feuerstein
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature. — Robert Wright
Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. — Jean Sibelius
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. — Jonathan Coe
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. — Nikki Giovanni
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees. — Dag Hammarskjold
Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America. — Herman Cain
I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times. — Johnny Depp
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well. — Rainn Wilson
I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence. — Mary Ellen Mark
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd. — Magdalena Abakanowicz
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences. — C. S. Lewis
Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky. — Carl Sagan
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? — Humphry Davy
It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct. — Julian Sanchez
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some friendships in life sustain themselves only at a particular life stage, products of some mutual developmental problem to be resolved together, or of some external circumstance, like being housed in the same dormitory in boarding school. Others grow out of a deeper spiritual and philosophical affinity, which continues throughout life. — Jill Ker Conway
Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength. — Yukio Mishima
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