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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

John Dewey

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education Future Life Live Preparation
Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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Drink Force Man Philosophy
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking

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