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«Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
committee, knowledgeable, provides, The Flame, vigorous
«A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.»
«If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.»
Author: John Heywood
(Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Attitude,
Experience,
Optimism
| Keywords:
adverse, develops, vigorous
«Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity,
Mind
| Keywords:
characteristics, curiosity, permanent, vigorous
«Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
inventive, pleasurable, vigorous
«I think that the trend toward freedom is virtually irreversible . . . these folks are too young and too vigorous.»
«Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Debt
| Keywords:
burthen, debts, discharge, exertions, likewise, occasioned, occasions, posterity, shunning, throwing, unavoidable, vigorous
«As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
concentrate, gardener, gardeners, limbs, miscellaneous, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, severe, vigorous
«Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
characteristics, curiosity, intellect, permanent, vigorous
«At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intriguing, involve, official, scandals, sleepless, vigorous
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