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“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.”

Want Energy Brain Teacher Ought Ambition Something Better

Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.”

Looks Purpose Found Sports Brain Special Products Ambition Intellectual Satisfaction Various Superiors Motive Temples Joyful Vivid Altars Mansions Utilitarian

Book:Essays in Science

Source: Essays in Science

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”

“There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.”

Heart Kind Brain Dangerous Ambition Courageous Devoted Unhealthy Madmen

Author:Michael Moorcock

“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”

Feels Long I Can Hands Remember Spiritual Faith Spirituality Force Brain Vision Creative Greater Confidence Ambition Determination Dominating

Author:Bruce Lee

“Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.”

“Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.”

World Self Pleasure Brain Teach Practice Destiny Ambition Humble Denial Dreamer Sublime Self-denial

Author:Walter Scott

“In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.”

Mind Whole Pain Form Used Hate Order Pleasure Brain Records Bears Essentials Ambition Conscious Evidence Bases Aim Organs Love And Hate Pain And Pleasure

Book:Philosophy and the brain

Source: Philosophy and the brain

“My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.”

“The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.”

Men Way Years Firsts Long Today Young Next Brain Virtue Ambition Enthusiasm Young Man Fifty Incapable

Book:The Charterhouse of Parma

Source: The Charterhouse of Parma