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“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Ifs Past Social Emotion Break Environment Style Discipline Innovation Structure Endure Bored Assertive Social Structure New Environment

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.”

Pain Past Discipline Understood Forgotten Recovery Therapy Injury Mobility Bourne

Book:The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum

Source: The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum

“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”

Source: A Woman's Worth

“We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.”

People Stills Past Party Consciousness Military Discipline Demand Survival Ethics Regard Fulfillment Soviet Shortcomings Military Discipline

Author:Filipp Golikov

“Over the past decade I have watched many friends go through graduate school and write dissertations. Through that process, I have seen how they are guided by mentors to understand particular norms within their disciplines and to learn about what they can and cannot, should and should not say, and which ideas can go together and which cannot. I never went through this process.”

Should Writing Ideas School Together Past Process Particular Discipline Decades Graduates Mentor Norm Over The Past Many Friends Graduate School Dissertation

Author:Dean Spade

“Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.”

Mean Past Political Decision Economy Information Discipline Politician Manage Marketplace Bureaucrats Uninformed Miscalculations Political Decisions Information Knowledge

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.”

People Sometimes Action Past Order Interest Teach Discipline Judgment

Author:Max Anders

“The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.”

Mind Facts Past Pleasure Discipline Gratitude Laughter Bird Stones Appreciation Sunset Weed Spells Unnoticed Purification Austerity Life Appreciation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.”

People Past Asks Answers Discipline Philosophical Persistence Academic Conventional Facility Rigour

Author:George Pattison

“Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.”

Long Past Next Term Discipline Percent Fellows Assuming Investing Decades Long Term Acquire Fund Investors Doing Nothing Index Funds

Author:Mark Hulbert

“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.”

Past Dying Discipline Species

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.”

Ifs Littles Long Running Pain Past Choices Easy Difficult Willing Habit Discipline Presses Uncomfortable Long Runs Initials Bad Habits Good Habits

Book:Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

“Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.”

“Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline.”

Art Hard Done Past Life Is Artist Order Perfect Vision Lovers Discipline Skills Lonely Relation Injustice Intense Presidential Application Deprivation Working Life Sissy Idlers Dilettantes

Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America