Dissociate

Dissociate and its synonymous sibling disassociate can each mean "to separate from association or union with another." Both trace back to the Latin verb sociare, meaning "to join," which comes in turn from socius, a noun meaning "companion." (Socius is associated with many English words, including social and society.) Dis- in this case means "do the opposite of," so both dissociate and disassociate indicate severing that which is united. 

the world according to Machiavelli

 

 There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.  Machiavelli

 

Fortune is a woman. You have to fight to dominate         

                                                                    Machiavelli

 

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.  Machiavelli

 

Chance governs a little more than half of our actions, and we run the rest Machiavelli

 

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.  Machiavelli

 

 

 

On Confidence

 

On Confidence

 

“Don’t be insecure if your heart is pure.” – Lady Gaga

 

“Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of it.” – Vince Lombardi.

 

“You don’t know the best love if you don’t practice a little self-love.”

 

”A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval” – Mark Twain

 

“If you want to be successful in anything, the first secret is getting started.”

 

“Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter

“Never, ever be afraid of failing, because failure is just a stepping stone to success.”

 

“I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.” – Edgar Allan Poe

 

“Choosing to practice unconditional self-love is the first step to overcoming low self-esteem.”

 

“When you have confidence, you can do anything.” – Sloane Stephens

 

“Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter

 

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan

 

“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” – James Madison

 

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.” – Nicole Scherzinger

 

“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.” – Brian Tracy

 

“It doesn’t matter if thousands of people believe in you unless you believe in yourself.” – Maddy Malhotra

 

“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.” – François de La Rochefoucauld

 

“Confidence and hard work are the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.” Abdul Kalam

“Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.” – Susan Piver

 

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith

 

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock

 

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” – Samuel Johnson

 

“If you don’t have any confidence, you’re not going to do anything.” – Stefon Diggs

 

“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” – Arnold Palmer

 

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

 

“True beauty is the flame of self-confidence that shines from the inside out.” – Barrie Davenport

 

“Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness.” – Michel de Montaigne

 

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”

 

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.” – Stan Smith

 

“To carry out a positive action, we must develop a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

 

“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

 

“What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or even indicates his fate.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter

 

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

 

“Self-confidence must come from within. Outside reinforcement and strokes can help, but you have to build your own confidence.” – Steve Jobs.

 

“Be confident in the skin you have because that is the only body you will ever have… You can be beautiful in your own way. All you have to do is accept it and own it.” – Deejae Harper.

“To be yourself when the world is constantly trying to change to something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” – Marcus Garvey

 

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

 

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

 

“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath

 

“I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day.” – Lynn Good

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther

 

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” – William Jennings Bryan

 

“There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.” – Johnny Unitas

 

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale

 

“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively

 

“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey

 

“Self-confidence is the foundation of all great success and achievement.” – Brian Tracy

 

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain

 

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” – Arthur Ashe

 

 “It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.” – Oprah Winfrey

 

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

 

“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – David Storey

 

“You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter

 

“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” – Joe Namath

 

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

 

“Confidence is a very fragile thing.” – Joe Montana

 

The Gims Brother Story of the Seven Dwarfs was

 

The Gims Brother Story of the Seven Dwarfs was probably inspirated by a woman named Maria.

Like Maria, Sophia and the dwarves in Maria's story were actually linked to a small mining town called Ribbon in the middle of Seven mountains.

Now the mines and tunnels in these mountains were very small, and only the small men who lived in this village who were very short and they wore brightly colored caps and hoods so that if they ever got stock they could easily be found and retrieved by their fellow miners.

The dwarfs wouldn't actually get their names until it Off Broadway play in 1912.

Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

 

  To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life’s greatest pleasures.-

“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath

 

 

I’m a riddle in nine syllables,

An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising.
Money’s new-minted in this fat purse.
I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I’ve eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

The unsettling nature of “Metaphors” (The Colossus, William Heinemann Limited, 1960)arises from the dichotomy of Plath’s tone and the images she chooses to convey her mentality. Initially, she playfully compares her pregnant state to an “elephant,” a “house,” a ripening “melon,” and a “yeasty” loaf of bread. However, starting with the sixth line, it becomes clear that beneath these pithy musings run the undercurrents of anxiety. Plath begins to see herself merely as a “means”—almost an incubator, with no other worth besides that of birthing offspring. This culminates with the last line, where she realizes that she is forever changed, irrevocably. Her pregnancy was only the beginning of the train-ride; she must now become a mother.