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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”

Men Romance Desire Values Passion Wealth Achieve Morality Prove Ultimate Depth Prosperity Charm Contentment Permission Inner Beauty Envied

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”

Thinking Men Simple Ability Achieve Paper Decent Pens Yarn

Author:Graham Moore

“Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive to increased activity. The important thing is to keep going.”

Men May Important Certain Economy Achieve He Man Morality Activity Aim Important Things Speed Psychological Certainty Keep Going Predecessors Market Economy

Book:The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

Source: The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.”

“What man can imagine he may one day achieve.”

Men Inspirational May Imagination Imagine Achieve One Day

Book:The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

Source: The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

“The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.”

Men May Done Life Is One Thing Achieve He Man Regret Ambition All Things Things In Life Harvest Reap Barren My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.”

Men World Hate Environment Achieve Devil Conviction Convinced Agents Radical Hated Primitive Be A Man

Author:John Ciardi

“Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.”

Knows Men Needs Doe Doors Achieve Window Ultimate Intelligent Going Away Elsewhere Going Out Exertion Intelligent Man

Author:Laozi

“The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.”

Men Learning Achieve He Man Sticks Forgotten Spending Neighbor Accomplishment Acquisition Advancing

Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Littles Whole Purpose Given Half Attitude Achieve He Man Ships Muscles Purpose Of Life Backwards Worthiness Strength Of Mind Volition Rudders

Author:Thomas Carlyle