If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that…

If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we’re talking about, eventually we will.

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Other Vernon Howard Quotes

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought. - View Quote Details on Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety? - View Quote Details on If you hand a man a lemon and tell him…
Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil. - View Quote Details on Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer…
Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you. - View Quote Details on Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with…
A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction. He does not really seek happiness, rather he seeks for a condition which matches his personl idea regarding the nature of happiness. But happiness is not a mere idea, for one idea will always have competition from another idea. The is why the unhappy man chases for ever from one attraction to another. Happiness will come when he stops chasing, that is, when he stops thinking that an idea about happiness is the same as happiness. A man enjoying the sunshine does so without analysing it. - View Quote Details on A person obsessed with the need to be happy will…
It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted? - View Quote Details on It is not a disaster to discover that you are…
If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way. - View Quote Details on If we choose the easy way, by letting another think…
Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it. - View Quote Details on Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and…
You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image? - View Quote Details on You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself…
Trying to command life without studying one’s own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music. - View Quote Details on Trying to command life without studying one’s own mind is…