Quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

Harry Allen Overstreet

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Maturity

Race

Thinking

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Appetite For Life

Inspirational

Reality

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Positive

Special

Truth

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

Believe

Education

Mean

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Book

Memorable

Reading

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Fighting

Play

Tragedy

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Funny

Self

Understanding

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

Democracy

Kindness

People

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Love Is

Mean

Music

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

Pride

Real

Rights

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Appetite For Life

Believe

Book

Democracy

Education

Essence

Fear

Fighting

Focus

Follow Through

Funny

Growing Up

Hate

Inspirational

Kindness

Love Is

Lying

Mature

Maturity

Mean

Memorable

Men

Mind

Music

People

Persons

Persuasion

Philosophy

Play

Positive

Powerful

Pride

Race

Reading

Real

Reality

Responsibility

Rights

Secret

Self

Special

Thinking

Time

Tragedy

Truth

Understanding

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Quotes by Harry Allen Overstreet

Harry Allen Overstreet

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

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