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«Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet, To the sunny side of the street.»
«All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Achievement
| Keywords:
achieve, achieves, direct, fails, of his own, result
«Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.»
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
«In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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Actions, consistent, consistently, control, control it, direct, Directed By, direct action, essence, essences, In a, in essence, I Want to Live, lives, of the essence, once, once in a while, Out of Control, shapes, take, take control, while
«A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Teachers and teaching
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direct, instruct, instructing, instructs
«Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Foolishness
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direct, folly, pursuit
«Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Acts, ambition, depends, direct, endowed, endowing, endows, passion, perform, principals, The Passion, well endowed, with ambition
«Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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direct, direct action, go together, indirectly, regulate, regulates, regulating, the Action
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