"What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget."

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Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas", Disc 1, 2000.

Michel Thomas

“You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.”
“God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.”
“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .”
“Teaching I realized took up a lot of my time. I was a kind of a teacher that spent time with students, spoke to them after class, tried to help them out. I'd talk with them personally about their work and try to get out of them what they were thinking about, forcing them to thinking seriously and not just falling back on all the ideas that they had picked up someplace. And so I took my job teaching very seriously and that - as a result, it took up a lot of time.”
“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.”
“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”
“Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.”

Source : Kevin Dutton (2012). “The Wisdom of Psychopaths”, p.189, Random House
“The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.”

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