AtomicQuote

H.W. Brands Quote

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

H.W. Brands

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

Tags: reaction, young adult

Related Quotes

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Shannon L. Alder

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Tags: actions, background, belief systems, books, caring, character, choices, creative, differences, digesting

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

Tags: achievement, action, advise, awake, awoke, awoken, bed, bed of roses, dull, food for thought

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

Tags: action, boldness, catalyst, change, determination, discipline, endeavor, first, guts, inaction

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

Jay Woodman

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

Tags: control, control issues, control your thoughts, controlling others, controlling your emotions, forgive, forgiveness, forgiveness and letting go, judgements, reacting

There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

Anthony Liccione

There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

Tags: don t understand, foot in mouth, hurtful words, people, quiet, reaction, silence is golden, speak, speech, stay silent

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Michael Bassey Johnson

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Tags: attitude, behaviour, dress, endowed, genuine folks, idiosyncracy, intelligence, lifestyle, michael bassey johnson, old man

Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being at...

Jay Woodman

Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being at...

Tags: awareness, breath, breathing in awareness, energy, experience, flow, life, life philosophy, love, meditation

There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either...

Michael Bassey Johnson

There comes a time when one suddenly discovers that there will never be a time for the coming of the perfect person, or believe that God sends people from heaven, so one finds a random fellow, either...

Tags: coming, dare, decision, discovery, finding, flaw, god sent, highest, life, loss

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Tags: age, nothing, reaction, knows

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

Kiana Tom

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

Tags: trust, right, reaction, gut
About H.W. Brands

Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.