They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones...
Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.
He read vividly.
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed alo...
vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding me...
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college deg...
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
The church of those who are redeemed by high-school reading lists. She
Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a person with...
Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.
I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.
To believe that you can be captain of your own life is to suffer the sin of pride. What is pride? These days the word pride has positive connotations. It means feeling good about yourself and the thin...
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
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