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Everything of importance is taken for granted. You're supposed to know, even though you are, in theory, being informed.

A true imprisonement has the implication of being involuntary.

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

Anything could be found in figures if the search were long enough and hard enough and if the proper pieces of information were ignored or overlooked.

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue happiness.(...) Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. (...) no matter how well off both layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

A robot (...) is logical but not reasonable.

It was an educational example of how remorseless a robotic society could be. Once brought into existence, robots were not so easily removed, and a human who wished to dispense with them even temporarily found he could not.

People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

He looked like a man who never smiled more than a little.

the first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides

El cuerpo y la mente están estrechamente relacionados y el estado corporal afecta a la eficiencia mental.

distrés: el estrés excesivo. Que nos hace caer en la ansiedad de estar haciendo algo con la mente puesta en lo que vendrá a continuación y aún no se ha empezado. Con sensación de no estar haciendo bien lo que se tiene entre manos, ni lo que se ansía empezar.

Pero también de la fiabilidad del mismo para confiar en él aspectos importantes de otros. Un valor creciente en nuestra sociedad real, que afecta a mucho más de lo que suele pensarse.

La ortografía cada vez es un valor más preciado y escaso. Es decisiva a menudo. Porque suele interpretarse como un gran valor que avala el contenido que se expresa. Al tiempo, muchas personas escriben con llamativos errores ortográficos que desdicen extraordinariamente de la cultura, delicadeza y formación de quien escribe.

Quien entiende algo, es capaz de componer un mapa conceptual de ello. Comprender la estructura interna de un texto oral o escrito es el medio más seguro de comprender su contenido, retenerlo más fácilmente en la memoria y ser capaz de reproducirlo y explicarlo en las circunstancias y forma que se pida.

La lectura es el arte por el que se conoce lo que el que escribe ha querido exponer. Consiste en extraer la enseñanza contenida en los signos escritos. Se trata de una de las habilidades más amplias, transcendentes y difíciles de enseñar con eficacia.

La memoria es la capacidad de recordar en el presente lo vivido o aprendido en el pasado.

La atención es la facultad del cerebro por la que se puede dirigir la actividad hacia algo concreto, de manera voluntaria. La atención es un estado afectivo. No se suele marcar, grabar, nada en el cerebro, sin que previamente haya despertado el interés, sin que afecte. (...) no se puede recordar algo sin haberle prestado atención al observarlo o vivirlo. (...) hay que haber prestado atención al percibirlo.

Los padres ocupan el lugar de preferencia —tras ellos los profesores— en la actitud frente al aprendizaje, tanto positiva como negativa. De ahí la gran responsabilidad de los padres y profesores en cuanto dicen, hacen o piensan acerca de la actitud de un hijo y alumno. Los comentarios positivos que no se hacen también influyen en la actitud del niño.

The compulsively superstitious person is also very often a serious believer in fate.

La actitud es la disposición de una persona frente a la realización de alguna tarea determinada.

though unrelaxed herself, had a relaxing quality, as is generally true of defenseless persons who present no threat

What was it about crazy people that made you want to shun them? The futility of reasoning with them, certainly, but also something else, something like a fear of contagion.

The worse part was that, as years passed, these memories became,in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the evidence that life wasn’t fair. If you weren’t a lucky child, you didn’t know you weren’t lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about.

If you grew up in a house were you were't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative. If you grew up with emotionally stunted parents, who were unhappy in their marriage and prone to visit that unhappiness on their children, you didn't know they were doing this. It was just your life. (...) in all these cases the damage was done before you knew you were damaged.

You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences.

Cuando una persona e incluso un animal se da cuenta de que no puede controlar lo que le ocurre, ni controlar cómo le ocurre, se vuelve pasivo o tiende a huir de aquella situación.

La motivación es el deseo de conseguir algo concreto. Un motivo para actuar.

Todos los padres y educadores tienen una única y gran misión: estimular a sus hijos y alumnos para encontrar su verdadero camino hacia la plenitud personal.

What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt. It was almost worth it. This dependency was what Leonard had guarded himself against feeling all his life, but he couldn’t do it any more. He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.