38 Quotes by Dorothea Brande

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.