“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
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“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
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“Nearly every person who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”
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“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
― The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
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