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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
— Tony Blair
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The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
— Winston Churchill
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
— Jerry Brown
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling…
— William James
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is…
— Zhuangzi
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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of…
— Denis Waitley
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Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
— Bill Gates
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