“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
— Marva Collins
Ms. Collins founded Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. It may be that this quote was directed towards her students. Often impoverished neighborhoods are also high-crime, so an injudicious imitation of friends and neighbors who are involved in criminal activity could be quite literally suicide.
Imitation can be beneficial however, if we are being judicious of WHO and WHAT we are imitating. Imitating specific behaviors and attitudes of someone who has been very successful could be helpful. Even so, it is still imperative to trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself, BE yourself.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.Civil Rights leader and Nobel laureate.
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A Man Remains Ignorant
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Wallace WattlesAuthor of "The Science Of Getting Rich"
“By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. (more…)
Loved Creation
Charles DickensEnglish writer
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Half Awake
William JamesHarvard professor, Father of American Psychology, New Age Thought pioneer
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources. … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum. … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will. Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”
— William James
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Winston ChurchillBritish Statesman
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” (more…)
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Ms. Collins founded Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. It may be that this quote was directed towards her students. Often impoverished neighborhoods are also high-crime, so an injudicious imitation of friends and neighbors who are involved in criminal activity could be quite literally suicide.
Imitation can be beneficial however, if we are being judicious of WHO and WHAT we are imitating. Imitating specific behaviors and attitudes of someone who has been very successful could be helpful. Even so, it is still imperative to trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself, BE yourself.
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“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Most People tiptoe through life hoping to make it safely to death.”
― Earl Nightingale
A Paradigm
…is a mental program that has almost exclusive control over our habitual behavior… AND almost all of our behavior is habitual.
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“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources. … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum. … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will. Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”
— William James
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