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“We should not fail to begin to practice something out of fear of not being able to accomplish the last percent of progress.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“You can have anything you want if you can give up the belief that you cannot have it”
― Stephen Hawley Martin, Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It

“You have a talent, something you are especially good at, something you can do better than anyone else. It’s called your Dharma. At a deep level, you know what it is because it’s buried in your subconscious mind. It’s a piece of your soul. Putting your Dharma to work in service to others is your purpose. That’s your path to bliss. You can begin to determine what it is by answering this question: What have I done that puts me so totally in the zone”
― Stephen Hawley Martin, Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It

“If you believe something to be, it becomes truth for you. Therefore, be careful what you accept as true for it will influence all aspects of your life and your future.”
― Stephen Hawley Martin, Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It

“Heed the call. Take the leap. But do not go off half-cocked. Plan it out. Take that full day. Take more than one. Take as many as necessary to develop your plan. But do it, and then, execute it. You won’t be sorry. You will be on your path to bliss.”
― Stephen Hawley Martin, Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It

“Yes, you absolutely should change what you can change, but you also need to accept what you cannot change. Out of acceptance will come detachment. This will enable you to enjoy the positive aspects of life without being distraction by the negative. Why waste energy focusing on things from the past when you can move on and put those things behind you?”
― Stephen Hawley Martin, Edgar Cayce, The Meaning of Life and What to Do About It

“You must come to terms with the fact that perfection quite literally does not exist and that you will always make mistakes. You must become comfortable with making mistakes and with laughing at yourself.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“but the most efficient path is always to practice the skills that you want to have. The worst investment of time is the study of grammar, i.e., it leads to the slowest progress in every skill. The best investments are reading and listening, both of which improve the other ability and also improve your potential ability to speak, all while giving you an intuitive (fluent) understanding of the advanced grammatical rules of the language.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“The myth that adults cannot learn languages stems from the usual context in which adults encounter languages: in a classroom, memorizing grammar rules and morphological tables. Yet in such a situation very few if any people can successfully learn a language to fluency.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“If fact, it is sugar and simple carbohydrates that make us fat and give us heart disease and diabetes.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“You can make progress by studying 15 or 30 minutes each day, but beginners will quickly become discouraged by how slow the entire process moves at this rate. You should ideally strive to find at least 60 minutes to study each day.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“Maximize the amount of exposure you get to the language. Remember, as discussed above, that language ability directly correlates with how many sentences the brain has had to process. Spend as much time as possible reading and listening to the target language, and refer to your native language only when necessary. At the beginning you will, of course, need your native language in order to make sense of the dialogue or text, but your goal should always be to maximize the number of sentences that you process.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“Between one half and three quarters of your study time should be spent reviewing previous material, and the remaining time should be given to repeating the new material as many times as possible.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“​You must constantly reflect on your learning and your lifestyle and reevaluate your choices, schedule, methods, techniques, and materials. You cannot mindlessly follow any path to success in language learning. You can learn from people who have met success, but ultimately you must discover your own path, your own techniques, and your own habits. If you want to be successful, you must develop self-awareness, discipline, and the ability to critique yourself and make adjustments.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“​In short, it is my experience (and the experience of many other polyglots) that the brain will keep a language active if you are studying or using a related language, even if you have no exposure to the first language. Indeed, sometimes you can improve and consolidate your knowledge of the first language with no dedicated effort simply by studying a related language.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“Second, and more importantly, you must seamlessly integrate the languages themselves into your lifestyle.”
― Joseph Conlon, Polyglot Life: Learn Any Language Quickly and Efficiently

“neural plasticity.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“but we can actually see the growth of brand new neurons in some parts of the brain. The brain, even in adults, is far more malleable than we’d ever thought thanks to the process of reshaping and rewiring known as neural plasticity.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“is fundamental to all learning, whether picking up a language or learning how to squat. Changes in nerve activity precede changes in nerve structure. The more you practice a skill, the better you become at that skill. Practice enough and the skill hardwires itself into your brain.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“Strength is about skill, teaching your brain how to handle both a movement and a maximum weight, but it’s also about building your body’s capacities.”
― Matt Perryman, Squat Every Day

“pas de soucis : no worries”
― Sylvie Lainé, Voyage en France, a Short Novel in Easy French: With Glossaries throughout the Text

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;" for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires,—and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves; it is our very self. Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of Fate—they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom—they liberate, being noble. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.”
― James Allen, AS A MAN THINKETH Deluxe Collection of Five Favorite James Allen Works [Annotated & Unabridged]: Includes BONUS Entire AUDIOBOOK Narration

“Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich and unnatural viands and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to have health, because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh