"We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags."

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Source : Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

Wilhelm Wundt

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“For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.”
“That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.”
“All of my novels are democracies.”
“Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy....”
“As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you lack enthusiasm for your job, you cannot perform to the best of your ability. Industriousness is unattainable without Enthusiasm.”
“People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.”

Source : "'The only way out is through': Sarah Hyland breaks silence over abusive ex-boyfriend Matt Prokop on The Meredith Vieira Show", www.dailymail.co.uk. October 28, 2014.
“I'm not not looking for a girlfriend - but I'm not particularly looking for a girlfriend, either. I'm not knocking having a relationship; at the end of the day, you want to share with someone. But I just look at it as, I have the rest of my life to do that. I'm not in any rush.”

Source : "Chace Crawford Leads People's Hottest Bachelor List" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2009.
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.”

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