Relaxation

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  • The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
        Nathaniel Hawthorne   Best?
  • Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.
        Jan Ehrenwald.   Best?
  • Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
        B. F. Skinner   Best?
  • When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional. When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
        Edwin Hubbel Chapin   Best?
  • Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.
        Francois Fenelon   Best?
  • Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Joy, temperance, and repose,
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms.
        Brown   Best?
  • The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
        Ferdinand Foch   Best?
  • The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
        Katherine Mansfield   Best?
  • Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
        Bruce Henderson   Best?
  • It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
        Robert Southey   Best?
  • There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
        Ovid   Best?
  • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
        Charles Sorenson   Best?
  • In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
        John Kenneth Galbraith   Best?
  • Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
        Joachim Du Bellay   Best?
  • It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
        Nicholas Boileau   Best?
  • The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
        Robert Maynard Hutchins   Best?
  • A good rest is half the work.
        Yugoslav Proverb   Best?
  • If you rest, you rust.
        Helen Hayes   Best?

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