Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brande
Dorothea Brandewas a well-respected writer and editor in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
american-writer stated
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
act guarantee
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
brothers flew screen smoke
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
boldly forces
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
filled mind
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
philosophy mind prejudice
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.
strong jealous old-habits
Old habits are strong and jealous.
ideas long original-ideas
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
religious games greek
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
teaching party prejudice
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.
moral stills
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
done bondage humdrum
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
running years differences
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.