"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."

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Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”
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“Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!”
“With the sweat of your brow. RapÂture can become your city asÂ well.”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.”
“Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.”

Source : "Bite by bite to success" by Susie Steiner, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2002.
“Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.”

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