Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Thomas A. EdisonRead
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
Interpretation
Edison advocates for a healthy lifestyle to enhance cognitive function.
In this quote, Thomas A. Edison emphasizes the connection between a healthy diet and optimal brain function. By choosing to be a vegetarian and abstaining from alcohol, he believes he can improve his mental clarity and creative thinking, underscoring the importance of health in intellectual pursuits.
In practice
Referencing this quote in a health and wellness seminar.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.
If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbathβ our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
If you subscribe to the idea that #β addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In the process they plastically retranscribe these procedural memories, so that they become conscious explicit memories, sometimes for the first time, and patients no longer need to "relive" or "reenact" them, especially if they were traumatic.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
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