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«Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations»
Author: Cavett Robert
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
achieved, defined, fully, limitations, Selecting, selects
«Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.»
Author: Joseph Story
| Keywords:
accumulating, aggregate, aggregated, materials, reorganized, reorganizing, Selecting
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.»
«Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
broad, broadest, broads, compassion, expand, helpfulness, mental, narrow, narrowed, narrower, narrowest, narrowing, narrows, narrow mind, roads, select, Selecting, selects, take to
«I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Philosophy,
Reason
| Keywords:
foreseeable, guide, however, sanctuaries, sanctuary, select, Selecting, selects
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
alas, all too, believes, bestowed, bestowing, cases, filled, forgets, perfection, select, Selecting, selects, sets, standard, The Standard, worships
«Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
above all, arts, Creative impulse, deprived, deprived of, flourish, flourished, freely, free people, impulse, incarnate, incarnated, methods, objects, select, Selecting, selects, sever, severed, severing, severs, spontaneity
«Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in your reading have been like the blast of triumph out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul.»
«Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
bright, constellation, corpus, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, habeas corpus, impartially, juries, press, principles, protection, protections, selected, Selecting, selects, the press, trial
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