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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the read more
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their read more
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, read more
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness read more
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," read more
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.
