"Begin where you are and what you are."

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Source : "Acres of Diamonds". Book by Russell H. Conwell, p. 59, 1915.

Russell Conwell

#Where You Are Quotes

“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.”
“It looks like they've been watching old Japan tapes!”
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
“I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”
“It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.”
“I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same”

Source : Michele Jaffe (2012). “Ghost Flower”, p.210, Penguin
“So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.”

Source : "The Evolution of the Human Intellect".

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