Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande More Quotes by Dorothea Brande More Quotes From Dorothea Brande The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. Dorothea Brande prejudice party teaching The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. Dorothea Brande greek religious games So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. Dorothea Brande original-ideas long ideas Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world. Dorothea Brande prejudice mind philosophy A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. Dorothea Brande Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. Dorothea Brande Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion. Dorothea Brande The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago. Dorothea Brande The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant. Dorothea Brande The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bare only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Dorothea Brande To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. Dorothea Brande rather man fire mind 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. Dorothea Brande face failure impossible success Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. Dorothea Brande open will always mind
