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Letter "A" » apathy
«Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
apathy, aroused, carrying, definite, intelligible
«Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand»
Author: Bodie Thoene
| About:
Apathy
| Keywords:
apathy, glove, gloved, gloves, hand and glove, slips
«In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.»
«Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.»
«In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Communication,
Language
| Keywords:
apathy, breeds, communications, familiarity
«Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.»
«Apathy - If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.»
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Action,
Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest»
«If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion»
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