12 Posts found for Author: Mark Twain

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.

Author: Mark Twain | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Author: Mark Twain | Subject: Personal Improvement

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation, Insight, Personal Improvement

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Relationships

Why does a crowd of the same kind of people in Texas, Colorado, Indiana, stand by, smitten to the heart and miserable, and by ostentatious outward signs pretend to enjoy a lynching? Why does it lift no hand or voice in protest? Only because it would be unpopular to do it, I think; each man is afraid of his neighbor’s disapproval—a thing which, to the … [ Read more ]

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior, Race Relations

Substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.

Author: Mark Twain | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Creativity and Innovation

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Relationships

I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Author: Mark Twain | Subjects: Desires, Life & Society