Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim.… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession. — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live. — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
