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#1

“Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.”
― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

tags: life, potential, potential-life

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#2

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

tags: self-esteem, time

900 likes

#3

“If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!”
― James Altucher

tags: priorities, saying-no, time-management

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#4

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”
― Alice Miller

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#5

“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

tags: childhood-trauma, individual, truth

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#6

“Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”
― Kato Lomb

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#7

“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: reading, reading-books

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#8

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

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#9

“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: 49

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#10

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: books, reading, understanding

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#11

“The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: reading, reading-books

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#12

“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

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#13

“The reader tries to uncover the skeleton that the book conceals. The author starts with the skeleton and tries to cover it up. His aim is to conceal the skeleton artistically or, in other words, to put flesh on the bare bones. If he is a good writer, he does not bury a puny skeleton under a mass of fat; on the other hand, neither should the flesh be too thin, so that the bones show through. If the flesh is thick enough, and if the flabbiness is avoided, the joints will be detectable and the motion of the parts will reveal the articulation.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: writing-advice

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#14

“From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: reading, reading-books

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#15

“The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: reading, reading-books

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#16

“Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: reading, reading-books

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#17

“You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: habits, reading, reading-books

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#18

“Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: novels, reading, reading-books, reading-novels

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#19

“Scientific objectivity is not the absence of initial bias. It is attained by frank confession of it.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: science, scientific-inquiry, scientific-method

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#20

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: books, children, curiosity, knowledge

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#21

“The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: free-thinking, mind, thinking

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#22

“You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: agreement, critical-thinking, criticism, disagreement, discussion, judgement, understanding

38 likes

#23

“Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: achievement, life, mastery, perfectionism, the-path

46 likes

#24

“For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: learning, mastery, self-improvement, surrender

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#25

“Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: intention, intentional-living, mastery, self-improvement, vision

18 likes

#26

“Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Psychology of Romantic Love

tags: excitement, love, marriage, marriage-advice, passion

28 likes

#27

“Our preoccupation with goals, results, and the quick fix has separated us from our own experiences.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: experience, goals, life

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#28

“The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: creativity, potential, potential-for-greatness

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#29

“To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

tags: learning, perfectionism

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#30

“The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom

tags: language-acquisition, language-learning

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