“ I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ Exercising self-restraint can be depleting, yet it can also be ennobling. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. ”
- Daniel Raeburn- Copy
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“ Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. ”
- Daniel H. Burnham- Copy
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“ In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
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“ Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
“ At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them. ”
- Daniel Akst- Copy
“ There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. ”
- Daniel Dae Kim- Copy
“ Those who focus best are relatively immune to emotional turbulence. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us. ”
- Daniel Goleman- Copy
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“ The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. ”
- Daniel Defoe- Copy
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“ You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. ”
- Daniel Dennett- Copy
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“ The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself. ”
- Daniel Dennett- Copy
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“ The trick is to take advantage of the particular details of the mess you’ve made, so that your next attempt will be informed by it and not just another blind stab in the dark. ”
- Daniel Dennett- Copy
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