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«The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.»
Author: Elaine Agather
| About:
Instinct
| Keywords:
backbone, bone, funny, funny bone, go with, instinct, wishbone
«When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.»
«With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| About:
Economics,
Instinct,
Motives
| Keywords:
alert, emulation, persistent, propensity
«Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Communication,
Instinct
| Keywords:
instincts, readiest, response
«There is no instinct like that of the heart.»
«The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach»
Author: Sophocles
| About:
Education,
Instinct,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
astray, reasonable, Reasonable man
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Instinct,
Reason
| Keywords:
bred, halfway, meets, well-bred
«The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.»
«Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason»
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