"The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
— David Axelrod
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the…
— Drew Barrymore
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
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Trust is built with consistency.
— Lincoln Chafee
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There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well,…
— Hillary Clinton
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue…
— Maya Angelou
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
— Bernard Berenson
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