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inspirational-life taken men
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. C. S. Lewis
inspirational-love vulnerable
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
inspirational motivational education
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers
inspirational
Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman. Malala Yousafzai
inspirational winning games
Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win. Robert Kiyosaki
inspirational mistake fall
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
inspirational life motivational
A mistake is a signal that it is time to learn something new, something you didn't know before.
inspirational hard-work inspire
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.
inspirational powerful inspire
The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.
hero athlete gold
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. Cathy Rigby
hero giving people
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis
hero gun helping-others
Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that. Antoine Fuqua
hero murder villain
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. Bill Vaughan
hero men goal
Goal achievement is hero's work.
heroes traits
We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best. David Blankenhorn
heroes horror kept mess pages point relation sat stuff woke
I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this. Padgett Powell
hero saved
Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life, Arthur Griffiths
heroic movies reason whereas
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Oscar Isaac
thinking people suffering
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Bertrand Russell
thinking power technique
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
thinking giving important
I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.
thinking mathematical absolutes
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
thinking understanding firsts
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
thinking punishment belief
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
thinking differences laughing
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be. Robert Fulghum
thinking knows ifs
You won't learn if you think you already know everything.
thinking use emotion
Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions