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- There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil, water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.
- John Davy
- Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
- John Haggai
- You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
- Dr. Maxwell Maltz
- Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
- Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
- Johnson
- If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
- Robert J. Ringer
- Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
- Nathaniel Brandon
- A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
- William E. Channing
- Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.
- Arthur Phelps
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