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  • momo
    2014-08-31
    My editor at Doubleday,Jean Anne Vincent,who so patiently and cheerfully goaded,prodded,pushed,wheedled,and cajoled me into finishing on time.
  • 杜松
    2012-10-15
    ...It is possible that you have learned more new words in the short time it too you to cover this chapter than the average adult learns in an entire year....we all, rich or poor, sick or well, have the same amount of time, exactly twenty-hours every day.
  • Flora
    2022-07-12
    3.sphygmomanometer-a device for measuring blood pressure (Greek sphygmos,pulse).
  • Lilith
    2021-07-06
    Consider very thoughtfully the explanation that the director of the Laboratory offered for the relationship between vocabulary and success:"Why do large vocabularies characterize executives and possibly outstanding men and women in other fields? The final answer seems to be that words are the instruments by means of which men and women grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the tools of thoughts."
  • 流泪狗狗头
    2020-11-18
    2. at least watch itAll normal people want and need love and at least a modicum of excitement in their lives—so say the psychologists. If no one loves them, and if they can find no one on whom to lavish their own love, they may often satisfy their emotional longings and needs by getting their feelings secondhand—through reading love stories, attending motion pictures, watching soap operas, etc.These are:vicarious feelings
  • Hugues
    2020-03-28
    Your method was the essence of simplicity: day in and day out you kept learning; you kept squeezing every possible ounce of learning out of every waking moment; you were an eternal question box, for you had a constant and insatiable desire to know and understand.
  • ISOlation
    2020-01-16
    The best temporary anaphrodisiac is probably sexual intercourse.
  • 夏夜寂寞属壁虎
    2018-11-27
    All normal human beings are born with a powerful urge to learn. Almost all of them lose this urge, even before they have reached maturity. It is only the few ... who are so constituted that lack of learning becomes a nuisance. This is perhaps the most insidious of human tragedies.
  • 轻舟已过万重山
    2015-01-28
    Why do large vocabularies characterize executives and possibly outstanding men and women in other fields? The final answer seems to be that words are the nistruments by means of which men and women grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the tolls of thought.
  • 含笑饮砒霜
    2012-01-29
    you are figuratively,and almost literally,blind to them
  • Sheep Black
    2012-01-24
    STEP ONE.You must become actively receptive to new words.STEP TWO.You must read more.STEP THREE.You must learn to add to your own vocabulary the new words you meet in your reading.STEP FOUR.You must open your mind to new ideas.STEP FIVE.You must set a goal.
  • momo
    2014-09-02
    You may possibly believe, and possibly, for yourself, be right, that a commitment is deeper and more meaningful if freedom is available without judicial proceedings.
  • 杜松
    2012-10-09
    ...the only common characteristic of successful people in this country is an unusual grasp of the meanings of words....The final answer seems to be that words are the instruments by means of which people grasp the thoughts of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. They are the tools of thought....that your I.Q. is intimately related to your vocabulary.You can accomplish a tremendous gain in less than two to three months of concentrated effort, even if you do only one session a day-in less time if you do two or more sessions a day.
  • Hugues
    2020-03-28
    Increasing your vocabulary does not mean merely learning the definitions of large numbers of obscure words; it does not mean memorizing scores of unrelated terms. What it means---what it can only mean---is becoming acquainted with the multitudinous and fascinating phenomena of human existence for which words are, obviously, only the verbal descriptions.
  • cocalemon
    2012-03-10
    TEASER PREVIEWWhat word best describes your personality if you:•Are interested solely in your own welfare?•Constantly talk about yourself?•Dedicate your life to helping others?•Turn your mind inward?•Turn your mind outward?•Hate humanity?•Hate marriage?•Lead a lonely, austere existence?SESSION 1Every human being is, in one way or another, unique.Everyone’s personality is determined by a combination of generic and environmental factors.Let us examine ten personality types (one of which might by chance be your very own) that result from the way culture, growth, family background, and environment interact with heredity.And, of course, we begin not with the words, but with the ideas.IDEAS1.me firstYour attitude for life is simple, direct, and aboveboard—every decisio...
  • JJ酱
    2018-09-18
    People with rich vocabularies have been reading omnivorously, voraciously, since childhood-including the ingredients listed in small print on bread warppers and cereal boxes.
  • 含笑饮砒霜
    2012-04-10
    The pyromaniac set fire for the thrill;the incendiary for revenge;the arsonist for money