“for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.” WorldSoulSelfWholeActionPoorSecretPovertySafeCriticsDebateWhole WorldYour SoulSmallestInvasionSecret Places Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.” IfsMindStoriesProblemDutyEgoSolutionsOrdinaryPerformancesMovedWork OutMotivatedRoutineProblem SolvingToilDualityAbsorbing Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.” WorldUseRolesPersonalityGeniusScaredCinemaGiantsSheerInsecureFormidableHitchcock Author:Anthony Hopkins
“In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.” HumansWellsImportantPlayEarthSuccessFaithHeavenGoalDivineAngelWingsWideCarrieBroadsHuman Experience Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.” YearsLooksLittlesSuccessNamesFriendshipWealthPoorPovertyStruggleRichGreaterCapableSmartGloryLonelyObviousRichesAttractiveSurroundApartmentIndifferentTrue FriendMotorGlamourTangibleMany Friends Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.” ThinkingProblemReadingLeftBusinessEducationCareersInfluenceApproachTrainingGladBusiness ProblemsFuture Business Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.” MindKindHas BeensMadeSoulPainSpiritualBusinessVirtueTakenLonelinessDangerWallTrainingLonelyDebateYour SoulBarriersIntolerancePettyNot AloneImpatienceDilemmaProgrammes Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.” HeartSuccessSufferingUnderstandingWealthMountainLonelyExperienceWideClimbs Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.” WorldWantNeedsShouldSelfProblemTogetherIndividualUnderstandingImaginationBusinessImpossibleTeamValuableAccomplishedAssetsSplendidSelf EducationAlphasAlpha And OmegaBusiness Problems Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.” WellsFeelingsPainAdviceColdCriticismRemainsHungerIllIgnorantContemptSubordinatesUnderdogIll Health Author:Alice Foote MacDougall