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- The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
- If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Baltasar Gracian
- I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
- Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
- Dr. David M. Burns
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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