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“Running a multi-million dollar business can be frustrating at times, especially when someone does something I am not happy with. It might not even be their fault, but it is human nature to reach in an angry or heated way. However, I have learned an important and effective lesson. Rather than complain to my member of staff about their actions, I search my memory bank for things I find wonderful about them. This changes the energy around the issue instantly. People tend to live up to what you expect of them.”

“The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!”

Men Humans May Stars Existence Wonderful Human Nature Prove Ultimate Mere Verification Jean Jacques Rousseau Jacques Rousseau

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!”

Children Father Wonderful Human Nature Bears Shapes Seeds Impression Wonderful Things Inclination Inheritance Our Father

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!”

Ifs Thinking Made Forever Wonderful Human Nature Drink Coffee Nerves Think Of You Skulls Messengers Mosquitoes Tiffany's

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!”

Want Humans Kind Nature Audience Wonderful Human Nature Lifts Unusual Odds Miraculous

Author:Paul Taylor

“I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.”

People Humans Made Real Shows Opportunity Bits My Own Audience Study Wonderful Stage Human Nature Built Real Life Observation

Author:W. C. Fields

“The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.”

Inspiration Religious Wonderful Human Nature Source Atheist Source Of Inspiration

Author:George Santayana

“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”

Way Firsts Humans Matter Causes Principles Wonderful Human Nature No Matter What Resilience Enjoyment

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.”

Two Levels Rights Wonderful Human Nature Divine Higher Fellows Slavery Slave Human Rights Paradox Higher Level Reciprocity

Book:The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author

Source: The Man with the Hoe; with Notes by the Author

“One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.”

Men World Humans Made Real Suffering Growing Wonderful Atheism Human Nature Regret Intellectual Fellows Atheist Conviction Insight Jail Shallow No Regrets Real Human Wonderful World

Author:John C. Wright

“At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms the message is that we should seek to overcome the selfishness we all seem to be born with, that we should overcome human nature and think of others before self.”

Thinking World Should Humans Heart Stills Self Seems Term Born Wonderful Human Nature Messages Concepts Overcoming Selfishness Glorious Savior Simplest

Author:James E. Faust

“What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.”

Humans Wells Able Wonderful Human Nature Walking Humanitarian Episodes Depraved Walking Dead

Author:Gale Anne Hurd

“I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.”

Thinking Want Humans Mean Wonderful Human Nature

Author:David Duchovny

“Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.”

Thinking Mean Hurt Animal Wonderful Human Nature Terrible Hurt So Much

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus