How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical StudyLittle, Brown,, 1916 - 227 páginas |
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How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical Study George Van Ness Dearborn Visualização integral - 1916 |
How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical Study George Van Ness Dearborn Visualização integral - 1916 |
How to Learn Easily: Practical Hints on Economical Study George Van Ness Dearborn Visualização integral - 1916 |
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Página 35 - halt by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to love others as himself. Such a one and no other has had a liberal
Página 198 - Not on the vulgar mass Called 'work' must sentence pass, Things done that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice: But all the world's coarse thumb And
Página 198 - failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Página 150 - teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with goodhumored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Página 123 - The close relation between emotion and muscular action has long been perceived. As Sherrington has pointed out, Emotion 'moves' us, hence the word itself. If developed in intensity, it impels toward vigorous movement. Every vigorous movement of the body . . . involves also the less noticeable cooperation of the viscera, especially of the circulatory and
Página 124 - respiratory. The extra demand made upon the muscles that move the frame involves a heightened action of the nutrient organs which supply to the muscles the material for their energy! The researches here reported have revealed a number of unsuspected ways in which muscular action is made more efficient because of emotional disturbances of the viscera. Every one of the
Página 149 - instruction will show that the mere bulk of matter communicated in books and lectures tends to swamp the native and active interests operative in intelligent behavior and in the acquaintanceship it brings. There this matter remains unassimilated, unorganized, not really understood. It stands on a dead level, hostile to the selective arrangement characteristic of thinking.
Página 124 - every one of these visceral changes is directly serviceable in making the organism more effective in the violent display of energy which fear or rage or pain
Página 21 - is that the greatest benefit from normal sleep, night or day, comes from the very first part of it. From this we may derive a principle of mental economy. Cut short the long, light sleep of the late morning hours and substitute a short sleep at some favorable time during the
Página 108 - any object not interesting in itself, may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.