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The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is…

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. — Sparky Anderson
He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no… — Walter Russell
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to… — Michio Kaku
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done;… — Lew Wallace
Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman
No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Only he who has a different visual opening can see the world in another way and can pass on to his neighbour… — Bruno Munari
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he… — Louis Kronenberger
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field… — Lewis Thomas
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. — Tippi Hedren

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