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«The name we give to something shapes our attitude to it»
«We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest / blank; and the world tells us what we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says / Work; and to us it says / Seem! To you it says / As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labor is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says / Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labor. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.»
Author: Olive Schreiner
(Writer)
| Keywords:
approximate, approximates, Armed force, armed forces, blank, Human heart, plastic, shapes
«The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.»
«We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.»
«To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not od»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
motions, Movements, odors, rapid, shapes, slow motion
«The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
failing, limited, notice, range, shapes, The Range
«You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events / how we interpret them / that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
attach, attaching, attach to, environment, Environments, events, interpret, meaning, shapes
«The social molds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to real star patterns»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
conventional, molds, shapes, social relations
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