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«Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.»
Author: Douglas Bader
| About:
Confidence,
Inspiration
| Keywords:
crutches, games, persuades, tells
«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
«Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.»
Author: John Ciardi
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
Girls, looking at, modern, moderns, modern art, painters, persuade, persuades
«People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mind,
People,
Reason
| Keywords:
come in, discovered, generally, persuaded, persuades, reasons
«Blessed are they that have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it»
«My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.»
«Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel»
«Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.»
«Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment»
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