“Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.” PeopleGreaterConditionsHonorCircumstancesPromiseOvercomingMedicalMoodObservationComparisonMentalitySoarYour HonorMedical Conditions Author:Stephen Covey
“There is nothing more appalling than the wholesale way in which unthinking people plead to the Almighty the richest and most spiritual of His promises, and claim their immediate fulfillment, without themselves fulfilling one of the conditions either on which they are promised or can possibly be given.” PeopleWaySpiritualGivenPrayerConditionsPromiseClaimsFulfillmentAlmightyFulfillingWholesale Author:William Henry Drummond
“God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.” ConditionsPromiseHumbleObedienceBe Humble Author:Ellen G. White
“I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.” WaySaidSometimesHelpingFallConditionsPromiseFalling In LoveBreatheAwfulReliefSense Of HumorLaughedSighGood SenseJamieGood Sense Of HumorSigh Of Relief Book:A Walk to Remember Source: A Walk to Remember
“Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.” WorldArtIdeasIndividualForceGoalMemoriesStruggleConditionsRevolutionPromiseUltimateObjectivesPreservesChanging The WorldDesperateProductiveDominationUltimate GoalEnslavementFreedom And Happiness Book:The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics Source: The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics
“Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.” PeopleGovernmentMightCoursesOpportunityCausesViewsTakenDoubtConditionsInformationFieldsPromiseAdvantageBasesAlternativesComparisonElsewhereDiscontentSystematicUniformity Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.” MenWorldWantBelieveMayWarStatesGivenPrinciplesAchieveConditionsPromiseVoteAffairPlenty Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO