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«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice....»
Author: Camille Duvall
| Keywords:
all the way, emphasis, in practice, Personal Best, technique, tournament, tournaments, visualization
«True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
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«People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' / to work for and hope for.»
«Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.»
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
afford, bitten, clearly, consequences, contention, contentions, contested, Contests, dog bite, good temper, including, killing, larger, lesser, loss, path of least, Personal Best, Personal self, quarrel, resolved, self control, spare, spare time, temper, The Dog, vitiated, vitiating, yield
«I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
continued, demonstrate, ethical, ethical standards, Personal Best, standards
«To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
mess, pathetic, Personal Best, personal computer, personal computers, take a look
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