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«Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.»
«After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life»
«Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
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Discipline,
Pride
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details, excitement, ingrained, meticulous, mutual, The Fear, The Goal
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
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clock, complicated, contradictory, defeated, details, disappointing, faultless, formed, Grown up, heroes, in the long run, long run, No Hero, of our own, promised, rule book, satisfy, simplicities, swordsman, The Long Run, The Rules
«A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.»
«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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Almost always, anxious, aristocratic, astonish, by and large, characteristic, commoner, commoners, despised, details, erudition, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, fecundity, formal, incorrect, in short order, large order, neglected, overburden, overburdened, regularities, regularity, rude, short order, singular, singulars, stir, The Order, untutored, variety, vigor
«Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Meaning
| Keywords:
and how, detailed, details, died, distinguish, ends, one-man
«Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
delineate, desirable, details, go over, mental picture, outcome, over and over, pictures, refinements
«Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.»
«Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
contemplation, critical, details, elevated, tasked, worthy
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