Quotes 401 till 420 of 8601.
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Source: Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7 -
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Variety is the very spice of live, I that gives it all its flavour.
Source: The Timepiece 606 -
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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