“My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.” ThinkingHardEducationProtectThreatNobleAbstractNeglectDeceived Author:Bob Dylan
“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.” PeopleMenMeanHardInterestHe ManProtectSorryPitySensitiveHard TimesMeekUnkindHaving A Hard Time Author:Martyn
“When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.” FeelsPersonsHardActorsProtectCriticismProtect Yourself Author:Jess Weixler
“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.” WorldHumansHas BeensHardIndividualGivenTechnologyIssuesDependsProtectSurvivalCommitmentAssumingSpeciesFloatsRelentlessPierceReassuranceOmenEmpiricismKnowledge Of The WorldBison Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America