"Whoever has learned to be anxious in..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
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“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
“To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.”
“A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.”
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“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
“We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.”
“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”
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“Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.”
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”