“Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.”
Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Source: The City of Ember
“Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.”
Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Regarding coronavirus
African American History Month reception, White House, , quoted in * 2020-02-29
Inside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey
Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/2020/02/29/7ebc882a-5b25-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html
2020s, 2020, February
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
The White Album (2000)
Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881) Swiss philosopher and poet
30 December 1850
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: The relation of thought to action filled my mind on waking, and I found myself carried toward a bizarre formula, which seems to have something of the night still clinging about it: Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious. It seemed to me that our most trifling actions, of eating, walking, and sleeping, were the condensation of a multitude of truths and thoughts, and that the wealth of ideas involved was in direct proportion to the commonness of the action (as our dreams are the more active, the deeper our sleep). We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day. In all spontaneity the work of creation is reproduced in analogy. When the spontaneity is unconscious, you have simple action; when it is conscious, intelligent and moral action.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Religions are for a day. They are the clouds. Humanity is the eternal blue. Religions are the waves of the sea. These waves depend upon the force and direction of the wind -- that is to say, of passion; but Humanity is the great sea. And so our religions change from day to day, and it is a blessed thing that they do. Why? Because we grow, and we are getting a little more civilized every day, -- and any man that is not willing to let another man express his opinion, is not a civilized man, and you know it. Any man that does not give to everybody else the rights he claims for himself, is not an honest man.
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Meeting of the "40 Committee" on covert action in Chile (27 June 1970) quoted in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974); the quotation was censored prior to publication due to legal action by the government. See New York Times (11 September 1974) "Censored Matter in Book About C.I.A. Said to Have Related Chile Activities; Damage Feared" by Seymour Hersh
1970s