“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.
Earnest HolmesFounder of the "Science of Mind" movement.
“You will rise, and you will fall,
You will get discouraged, you will become encouraged,
But always you will be progressing, Always,
And so you must simply stick to it
And the day will come
When you will no longer say
‘I hope, I desire, I pray,’
But you will say ‘I know.’”
— Earnest Holmes, from “Love and Law”
I must say, this is one of my favorite quotes.
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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
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…is a mental program that has almost exclusive control over our habitual behavior… AND almost all of our behavior is habitual.
A paradigm can be likened to a program that has been installed in your subconscious mind.
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“You will rise, and you will fall,
You will get discouraged, you will become encouraged,
But always you will be progressing,
Always,
And so you must simply stick to it
And the day will come
When you will no longer say
‘I hope, I desire, I pray,’
But you will say
‘I know.’”
— Earnest Holmes, from “Love and Law”
I must say, this is one of my favorite quotes.
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