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Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. ↗


— Roopleen


#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled. But learning just as certainly that his will is subject to laws, he does not and cannot believe it. However often experiment and reasoning may show a man that under the same conditions and with the same character he will do the same thing as before, yet when, under the same conditions and with the same character, he approaches for the thousandth time the action that always ends in the same way, he feels as certainly convinced as before the experiment that he can act as he pleases. Every man, savage or sage, however incontestably reason and experiment may prove to him that it is impossible to imagine two different courses of action in precisely the same conditions, feels that without this irrational conception (which constitutes the essence of freedom) he cannot imagine life. He feels that, however impossible it may be, it is so, for without this conceptions of freedom not only would he be unable to understand life, but he would be unable to live for a single moment. He could not live, because all man's efforts, all his impulses to life, are only efforts to increase freedom. Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life. If the conception of freedom appears to reason a senseless contradiction, like the possibility of performing two actions at one and the same instant of time, or of an effect without a cause, that only proves that consciousness is not subject to reason. ↗


— Leo Tolstoy


#reason #experience

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ↗


— Albert Schweitzer


#happiness #key #key to success #love #success

My loyalty and friendship has no bounds, no matter where life takes us you'll always have my hand. ↗


— Ellie Williams


#ellie-williams #elliewillz #friendship

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. ↗


— Adam Schiff


#characterize #civil #civil liberties #democracy #fear

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ↗


— Ed Parker


#accomplishments #fulfilled #intelligent #intelligent man #learn

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗


— Stewart Alsop


#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. ↗


— Will Rogers


#money #people #pride #will-rogers #life

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. ↗


— Henry David Thoreau


#exploration #explore #land #mysterious #mystery

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ↗


— Isaac Asimov


#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life






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