#mental

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#again #attitude #experience #failure #get

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#accounts #after #asset #capital #corporation

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#claus #come #even #face #family

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#cases #controls #direct #each #enzyme

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. ↗

— Louise Hart

#happiness #health #important #legs #mental

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#fundamentally #just #premium #program #support

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. ↗

— David R. Brower

#energy #every #every time #given #go

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. ↗