Christian Nestell Bovee: Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases…
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.
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- Pull the weeds of your past that you didn’t want, so you can plant seeds for your future that you do want.
- Never allow small thinking to minimize or leash BIG thinking.
- You must deal with your old reasons before you can begin new seasons.
- If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly, nothing can get in your way.
- To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.