Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brandewas a well-respected writer and editor in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational frustration faces
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
children genius world
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
aids force unforeseen
Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
strong jealous old-habits
Old habits are strong and jealous.
ideas long original-ideas
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
running years differences
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.
done bondage humdrum
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
moral stills
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
teaching party prejudice
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
religious games greek
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
philosophy mind prejudice
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
filled mind
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
boldly forces
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.