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Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Hans Selye

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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Advice Beginning Career Mindset Person Prejudice Young
Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
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Being Reason Result Stress
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
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Conscious Erase Oneself Pleasant
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
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Achievement Defeat Failure Greatness Past Yourself
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
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Assumption Attack Faith Goodness Kind Offering Policy Purpose
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Old Organism Play Scars Stress Survive
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
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Goal Health Proud Purpose Respect Work
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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Approval Thirst
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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Avoid Exercise Food Man Stress Try
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
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Amazement Faculty Lose Science True
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.
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Ability Body Dangerous Man Resistance
Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
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Enjoyment Errors Life Mistake
The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
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Emotion Gratitude Health Human
To be totally without stress is to be dead.
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Death Stress
The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
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Best Build Drive Necessary Race
Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
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Emotion Gratitude Human Important

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