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«Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror»
Author: Byrd Baggett
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
look, look at, mirror, mirrored, rear, rearing, rears, rear view, Rear View Mirror, through, view, view as, windshield
«Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
| Keywords:
disposed, dominion, Eye of, gladden, gladdening, gladdens, protects, rears, rises, servants, structure, the Master, uplifted
«We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
rear, rearing, rears, rear view, Rear View Mirror
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
Author: Neil Simon
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
blond, chances, connections, conviction, cooperation, criteria, efforts, exclusion, firmly, floor, important person, interests, luckier, Michelangelo, of your own, painted, prettier, rearing, rears, respects, rubbed, rubbing, rub up, sensitivity, smarter, talented, taller
«Do not entertain bad thoughts and do bad deeds. Life is holy and sacred. Go through it with joy and happiness. Do not carry gloomy, unhappy faces. Happiness is union with God. This period of your life is sacred. If you can not derive happiness and live in Bliss at this age, can you be blissful when you grow old? Now, you have only two legs to carry; you can jump about freely. But when you marry and rear up a family, you will move like a caterpillar with many legs!»
«The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bites, covers, insects, protects, rears
«The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.»
Author: Colin Powell
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, echelon, field, proved, rear, rearing, rears, right field, The Field
«But mortal bliss will never come sincere; Pleasure may lead, but grief blow brings up the rear»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, bringing, bringing up, bring off, coffin, coffins, damp, damps, deliberately, drizzly, funeral, grim, hand to mouth, hats, high hand, high sea, high time, involuntarily, knocking, knockings, knock off, moral principle, November, pausing, prevent, rear, rearing, rears, stepping, upper, uppers, upper hand, warehouse, warehouses
«Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, accumulation, accumulations, city, Creation, Death itself, destroys, horror, ideal, mere, million, multiply, One In A Million, parasite, rear, rearing, rears, swelled, swell up, swollen, throws
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