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"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
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"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made."
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"
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"Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change your feeling."
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"Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress."
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"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
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"It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power."
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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
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"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
Reality


"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
Adaptation


"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
Attitude


"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
Knowledge


"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
Knowledge


"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."
Time


"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
Action


"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
Action


"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
Education


"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
Creativity
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