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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.”

Men May Done Life Is One Thing Achieve He Man Regret Ambition All Things Things In Life Harvest Reap Barren My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.”

Men Learning Achieve He Man Sticks Forgotten Spending Neighbor Accomplishment Acquisition Advancing

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Littles Whole Purpose Given Half Attitude Achieve He Man Ships Muscles Purpose Of Life Backwards Worthiness Strength Of Mind Volition Rudders

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.”

Men Mind Stills Government House White Democracy Influence Achieve He Man Reflection Congress Permanent White House Thinker

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn't something a special ops team can fix.”

Men Country Hell Forever Team Achieve Special Changed He Man Who We Are Bin Laden Special Ops

Author:Radley Balko

“The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.”

Men Mind Littles Evil Achieve He Man Noble Reverse

Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.”

People Men Looks Matter Games Break Records Achieve He Man Appreciate Bigger Look Up

Author:Garfield Sobers