top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
Standard
Customized
More
"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
Author Name
Personal Development
"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always begin to compose the melody first."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
Change
"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
Envy
"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Chaos
"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
Action
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Quality
"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
Fact
"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
Nature
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
Evolution
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
First
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
Belief
bottom of page