“It is only hard work that brings about results, doing things for others. Forget about your problems. Take responsibility for your life and make it into something beautiful in the midst of changing circumstances.” HardProblemBeautifulForgetResultsResponsibilityHard WorkBuddhismBalanceCircumstancesMidstTaking ResponsibilitySomething BeautifulResponsibility For Your LifeDoing Things For Others Author:Frederick Lenz
“If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.” IfsMenMayLongDoeHas BeensSaidRememberFacesForgetDangerReadyCircumstancesLong TimeLaysProfitSentiments Author:Confucius
“The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.” PeopleMindHumansIdeasHelpingUseAgeImaginationMemoriesForgetHistoryMaterialsCircumstancesJudgmentModelsReflectionLettersFacultyArtificialPrincipalSavagesIncapableHerdsRoman EmpireCivilisedLethargic Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.” ThinkingI CanSelfStatesRememberHouseEasySpaceWhiteForgetUnitedCitiesUnited StatesCircumstancesOfficeWindowFortunateWhite HouseSelf Contained Book:President Wilson's Addresses Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.” PeopleGivenForgetBehindsCircumstancesIdealsCompromise Author:David Lloyd
“When you step in to act, you just zoom way in on the longest possible lens and you're just totally in the point of view of your character and you have to forget about everyone else. You don't care about what anybody else is, what they want or what they're trying to do. You're just concerned with your circumstances, what you're trying to get out of someone or some scene.” TryingCharacterCareForgetCircumstancesSceneConcernedPoint Of View Author:Cherien Dabis
“Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want to forget these people, ever. That's very much a part of my still being alive - to remember those who aren't here anymore.” PeopleRememberForgetCircumstancesAidsGhostMysteriousGreat Writers Author:Lynne Tillman
“The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.” MenNeedsForgetChangedProductsCircumstancesDoctrineUpbringingEducator Author:Karl Marx