A Quotes
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“A well-tended fire doesn’t just burn for a night—it provides warmth, light, and sustenance long after it has been carefully maintained. The same is true for psychedelic experiences.”
Source: Engagement: The Missing Component in Psychedelic Therapy
“A well trained body is a beautiful instrument on which to play the melody of the present moment.”
“A well-trained mind directs circumstance.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“A well-trained mind responded to symptoms.
An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.”
“A well-written article does not make what was written factual or something to subscribe to.
Fiction does not become fact because it looks good.
Fiction does not become fact because you wish it were true.
Fiction does not become fact because it has turned into popular opinion.
Remember this before reading the news, views, opinions or commentary.”
“A well-written book in which one can find new ideas, and a good pen to communicate one’s own ideas to others, for me have always been and are to-day the most valuable and intimate products of culture.”
Source: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography
“A well-aimed spear is worth three.”
Source: To Green Angel Tower
“A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.”
“A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.”
“A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.”
“A well-behaved woman seldom makes history”
“A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'”
“A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe
“A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.”
“A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.”
“A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.”
“A well-chosen complication should give you choices. Juggling choices for your characters is what makes writing fun, after all. If you discover that you're struggling more than you ought to with a draft, perhaps you've run out of interesting choices, or have given yourself too few choices to begin with. Go back to the complication, fatten it up, and start over.”
“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
“A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits”
“A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.”
“A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.”
“A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.”
“A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.”
“A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.”
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
“A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.”
Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality
“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”
“A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'”
“A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.”
“A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.”
“A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).”
Source: Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
“A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty”
“A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry
“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819
“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”
“A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.”
“A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
Source: Influence: science and practice
“A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.”
Source: The Art of Eating
“A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.”
“A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.”
“A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”
Source: A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More
“A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.”
“A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.”
“A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.”
“A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity.
[Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis
Alteram sortem, bene preparatum
Pectus.]”