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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.”

Thinking Want Trying Attitude Careers Built Innovation Radical Legacy Accomplished Status Quo Resisting

Author:Peter Diamandis

“Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.”

People Government Attitude Republican Equal Built Democrat Suspicion Dependence Neurotic Loathing

Author:Meg Greenfield

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“When you go through a process of #1 praying daily and staying in God's word #2 obey Him in the small decisions every day #3 ask advice from a number of spiritual counselors then you can step out peacefully knowing that pleasing God is all that matters. America was built on this attitude.”

Matter America Spiritual Asks Process Decision Numbers Attitude Steps Knowing Advice Praying Built Staying Counselor Pleasing God Small Decisions

Author:Mary Engelbreit

“I think I'm built like a painter. I have friends who are painters and they reflect a similar psychological attitude towards their work. They don't know what's coming next, they just wait for the message, for orders to come and then off they go on their next project.”

Thinking Knows Order Next Waiting Attitude Goes On Projects Messages Built Psychological Painter

Author:John McLaughlin

“There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”

Should Humans Ideas Body Evil Sex Attitude Built Shame Guilt Ashamed Human Body Taboo Prohibition

Author:George Carlin

“A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.”

Enough Desire Church Attitude Clear Modern Wind Ego Built Ultimate Oneself Doctrine Good Enough Sole Dictatorship Fundamentalism Definite Here And There Relativism Modern Times Credo

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.”

Soul Body Evil Cities Attitude Air Building Built Sick Rose Visible Unconscious Nightmare Barren Wonderland Semblance Apparitions

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.”

People Doe Stills Philosophy Dies Turns Culture Born Views Attitude Built Determined Collapse Milieu

Book:The Problem of Method

Source: The Problem of Method

“The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.”

“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.”

World Attitude Teach Novel Reader Built Tolerance Certainty Novelists

Author:Milan Kundera