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- It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
- Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
- Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because…
- Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I…
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular…
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
- Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will…
- Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle