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Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.”

Should Self Teacher Preparation Ethical Rooted Formation

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.”

Should Looks Real Self Reason Moving Opportunity Grows Healing Letting Go Misery Entertainment Miserable Real Self Socializing Never Let Go Good Opportunity

Author:Lester Levenson

“The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.”

Should Said Self Humanity Wish Causes Born Holy Glory Strive Seeking Dedication Ruthlessness

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.”

Should Self Easy Difficult Emotion Discipline Negative Self Discipline Negative Emotions Conscientiousness

Author:Dalai Lama

“For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.”

Should Writing Kind Littles Self Wanted Song Felt Understood Should Have Reeds

Author:Lou Reed

“Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that we frequently forget, for it needs a very big mental re-adjustment. Don't worry about it -- just serve! But the very least that is demanded of us in this context is to RESPECT the person we are serving. That includes respecting their beliefs; in fact, it means reaching their spiritual Self through their beliefs, not ours. It means putting oneself in their shoes; cheering them up if possible, but seeing things from their point of view.”

Ifs Needs Should Mean Persons Self Facts Bigs Spiritual Belief Forget Views Worry Seeing Shoes Oneself Point Of View Reaching Divinity Serving Cheer Adjustment Baba

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country.”

“An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me.”

Should I Can Self Happens Drawing Portraits Portraiture Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography

Author:Jacques Derrida

“I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Sides Team Self Esteem Confidence Assurance Self Empowerment Your Side Be Confident Self-importance Estimating

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”

Should Doe Self Helping Sports Teach Self Esteem Discipline Esteem Winner Self Control Success In Life Self Discipline Trophies Discipline And Self Control

Author:Roy Baumeister

“The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.”

Should Self Use Hands Desire Energy Enemy Conflict Weapons Negative Possession Reputation Demon Attachment Frightened True Self Rejecting Negative Energy

Author:Teresa Giudice

“The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .”

Men Should Self Philosophy Nature Teaching Brother Importance Prejudice Contemplation Superstitions Remedy Serenity Strengthening Self-importance

Author:Luther Burbank

“I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”

Men Should Self Dream Hands Able Jesus Nations Destiny Air Century Should Have Ambitious Peasants Thin Air

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”

Needs Should Self House Behinds Brain Materials Stones Meetings Ghost Encounters Host Interiors Midnight Chamber Concealed Confronting Corridors Lonesome Surpassing Abbey

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.”

Ifs Want Should Persons Self Play Acting Roles Study Teacher Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.”

Giving Feels Should Self Yoga Obvious Karma Selfless Karma Yoga Self Giving Selfless Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

Inspirational Should Mean Doe Made Self Moments Motivational Waiting Perfect Taken Failing Risk Speed Foolish Preparation Damn Destructive Self Destructive Perfect Moments Torpedoes

Author:David Viscott

“Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.”

Way Should Self Highest Ideals All Things One Way Self Respect

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.”

Knows Should Littles Doe Has Beens Made Book Real Self Reason Character Stories Hands Might Faces Fun Reader Picks Familiar Factors Spots Titles Referencing Familiar Faces Book Titles

Author:Charles de Lint

“Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.”

World Should Heart Self Fighting Ideals Fulfillment Fixed Bliss Knives Butterfly Never Quit Pins Melville Morgana

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that is. We could say that we've picked up a signal, but we should not tell them where for the simple reason that anybody could commandeer a radio telescope, set themselves up as some self appointed spokesperson of mankind and start beaming all sorts of crazy messages back to the aliens.”

Way Should Self Reason Simple Crazy Mankind Civilization Messages Radio Aliens Signals Telescopes Supposing

Author:Paul Davies

“An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.”

Should Self Elements Artwork One Direction Demonstrating Placating

Author:Luc Tuymans

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.”

People Ifs Should Mean Self Enjoy Prayer Emotional Praying Enlightenment Satisfaction Obvious Valuable Vanity Ritual Beneficial Indulgence Stimulus Observance Self Indulgence Fixation

Book:Seeker After Truth

Source: Seeker After Truth

“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.”

Should Trying Self Actors Easy Forever Like You Pride Self Love Who You Are Singularity Like Yourself

Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.”

Giving Should Self Government Values Liberty Rights Giving Up Safety Unions Determined Sovereignty Self-government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?”

People Men World Feels Should Heart Self Past Spirit Belief Emotion Wonder Ghost Tales Wander Former Affected Vague Spooky Old World Lingering Hovering

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories

“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”

“Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self-image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.”

Should Looks Art Self Demand Art Is Accounts Mood Dependent Temporary Imperfection Our Love Subservient Positive Self Positive Self Image

Book:Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

Source: Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist

“Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.”

Should Art Self Form Song Freedom Creative Expression Breaths Baths Self Expression Refreshing Impulsive Sketching

Author:Mervyn Levy

“What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Hard States Accepting Achieve Worst Willing Conscious Tasks Good Things Opening Vulnerable Insecure Self Conscious Your Presence

Author:Esther Earl

“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”

Should Self Reality Certain Passion Interest Dangerous Injustice Distrust Self Interest Trustworthy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.”

Should Looks Self Style Acceptance Healthy Self Acceptance

Author:Stacy London

“When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.”

Knows Men Should Self Rooms Higher And Love Meetings Guests Entertainers Higher Self

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Should Has Beens Said I Can Self Views Lord Opinion Taken Position Should Have Guilty Former Amazed Reliance Should Have Been Invoke Lordship Barristers

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.”

Ifs Should Writing Persons Self Enough Expression Reader Aim Seven Patient Self Expression

Book:The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.”

People Men Want Should Writing Stills Book Self Reason Whole Dream Hate Turns Animal Emotion Horror Drug Destruction Mad Curse Nerves Pale Apostles Hate Me Self Destruction Self Destruct

Author:Leonid Andreyev

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