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«Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground»
Author: Ralph Marston
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Day,
Goals
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additional, drifted, drifting, drifts, drift away, ground, regain, regained, regaining, regains, wasting away
«Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
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constructive, cork, drift, drifted, drifts, river, tiny
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
«To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.»
«How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond!»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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drifted, earthly, harbor, imperceptible, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, provision, the Great Sea, tugging, tugs, untenable
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
«The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Education
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drift, drifted, persuade, worlds