"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

Hope Davis, American Actress

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

Michael Grant, American Author

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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

Fire, Light, Reality, Reflection

"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."

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"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Explore more quotes by Dorthea Brande

"By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."

"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."

"Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier."

"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid."

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success."