“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.” WayGivingMaySometimesHelpingBigsEnergyInterestLosesHabitEasierMajorsStressTransformationExcitementMinorsInsignificantAuthentic HappinessMajor ChangeUnder Stress Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.” PeopleGivingShouldIdeasPoliticalPoliticsInterestResearchTasksStressPracticalsCarrieSpellsLicenseImplicationsAcademiaMisuseFrayVested InterestsScholarlyIdeologues Author:Stephanie Coontz
“With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.” NextInterestCasesPeriodsActivityStressCrisisDevelopingExceptionMatureChaptersAdolescenceOrderlyNext Chapter Book:Coming of Age in Samoa Source: Coming of Age in Samoa
“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.” NeedsFactsFacesFoundInterestChristCommonHonestyCostMessagesStressLaysCrowdsFollowingSinnerUrgesGatheringPresentationFollowing Christ Author:J. I. Packer
“Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.” WorldLoveProblemRunningInterestChristWealthThis WorldStressRichesChasing Author:David Wilkerson
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.” WorldLifeLittlesPersonsAbleGrowthInterestPleasureEducationStrangeBecomingStressAddCaughtEducationalEndlessEnormousEducatedDiscussionCaught UpEducated Person Author:Edith Hamilton
“However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.” FeelsMadeInterestMy OwnPhotographyConsciousStressRelationPhotographer Book:Aaron Siskind, photographer Source: Aaron Siskind, photographer
“Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.” PeopleMindLittlesWholeMightGrowsInterestDecisionModernStressPopulationOilTortureOur SocietyDictatorModern LifeBombingUnbalanced Author:Doris "Granny D" Haddock
“Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but they do not stand by a man in his time of stress.” MenGovernmentInterestDrawsAdvantageStressRelationCarefulBe Careful Author:Gamaliel
“I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment” FeelsLongRealMatterPhilosophyInterestEnvironmentGreaterLandSpecialIndiaStressMedicineBelieverRationalIndianCollectionsInquiryArdentHomeopathy Author:Rabindranath Tagore