In this essay, I will tell you about a quote that has impacted my life significantly over the years and how it has shaped me as a person. The quote is, “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort” Theodore Roosevelt. When I was ten years old and my mom and I redid my room, we put “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort” on my wall. She told me, being rich and driving super luxurious cars is not always what it seems. It takes hard work to live the high life and then at that exact moment she told me that quote. She said if that's how you want to live when you are older, that’s fine, but to get there you must work extremely hard. This quote originated like I said above when we redid my room. Every day …show more content…
Now I know I was only ten years old and being the know it all I was. I was like “duh I already knew that”. Then the next day I was looking at the quote on my wall. I sat down and gave it a deep thought. Over the last few years, I use it every morning for motivation when I do not want to do something. Today, I cannot say I completely understand it to the fullest meaning, but what I can say is that when my mom introduced me to this quote. I do believe I never thought it would impact my life as much as it does today, and for that, I could not be more …show more content…
When you first hear something you don't think much about it. But over the years it has grown on me and I understand it better and better each day. To this day I still do not have a full understanding of what the true meaning means but I do know it has helped me in many situations. The quote that has had an impact on my life relates to psychology in many ways. The first way is when I read this quote, it sticks in my brain. It makes my mind think about the future and how if you will blow off this one assignment then how much more will you blow off in the future. The second way is that it teaches you something, once you start to understand the quote you live by, your mind does not forget that once it is engraved in your mind. I believe that it relates to psychology by the fact you think about it because after all psychology is the study of the human
I sense that there is an importance to learn the various aspects of our minds and how it works to navigate through our information rich environment and to embrace the similarities and differences that we have. I personally hope that psychology will help me understand my place in this world and how, with the knowledge I have acquired to the study of psychology, help make the world an easier place to live in. There has been too many a time where we humans have made uneducated decisions that affected the lives of other people and regret to tell the tale. I wish that each and every individual will have the chance to learn psychology to further understand our thoughts and behavior because, with psychology, we have a greater chance to mold a better future for the next
When I hear the word “legacy,” I often feel intimidated because I instinctively compare myself with those who have accomplished something significant. In fact, I get the impression that I am disadvantaged, or strictly speaking, useless, compared to those who are leaders. I feel that my fate prevents me from meeting new opportunities, which ultimately impedes me from making great accomplishments. However, after reading “Home of the Free” by Wendell Berry, I am forced to riffle through my life span and smile at the great accomplishments that I, as a “disadvantaged” kid, have taken pride in. Berry’s thesis can be summarized by a quote from the famous existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote, “If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.” Nietzsche establishes the notion that, in life, we should not avoid “the necessary work of human life” and only seek pleasure and peace. This notion, which is what comprises Berry’s concept of “satisfaction,” makes me ponder everything in life that can make existence prove worthwhile.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
The quote itself can be translated into, an everyday person does not want to be happy and ambition. That person will settle with what will keep them alive. I agree with this quote for a few reasons. To begin, the people in today’s
Because of that phrase, I never take anything for granted. I know that with experience comes knowledge, even experiences in small everyday tasks. So, if someone were to overlook an event they went through or new information they received, they’d be missing out on a chance for more knowledge. Even though it takes hard work, when we as humans learn more, we only benefit in the end. Because of my enthusiasm to gain knowledge, I would be a positive addition to the current National Junior Honor Society.
But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” (Carson 209) People cannot be taught by someone else how to make the right decision, instead people have to go with how they feel. People are constantly told not to make the easy decision but to make the right one. It is not hard to decide what the right decision is, the hard part is deciding if putting the work into the right decision is worth it. You cannot be taught by a test, to put in effort to making the right decision. You develop that skill throughout your lifetime. While Wilde’s quote does hold some face value, it is not completely true. Most do not know his exact thoughts around this saying people can interpret this in their own way. Many people think lessons are only taught in a classroom, but this is far from the truth. All throughout people’s lives they are constantly being taught different lessons that stay with them throughout their lives, and almost known of them are learned in a classroom situation. Wilde says, “Nothing worth knowing can be taught.” While valuable life lessons, such as satisfaction, making the right decision, and being
This quote has a significant meaning to me because of one main reason. That reason is
“Nothing can bring to a man so much of happiness or so much of misery as man himself.” – Frederick Douglass
Synopsis of Article: This article explains the relationship between Education and Psychology and how Psychology plays a dominant role in understanding ideas and the material in Education. It delineates the contribution of psychology to education from the view of society and then from the work of a psychologist. It focuses on natural tendencies in human nature that influence the learning process and also the affect our surroundings have on learning. The article shows how Psychology contributes to methods of teaching and also methods of learning tremendously. It explains the importance of psychologists in making new discoveries and progression in all aspects of psychology and the role these discoveries play in Education. The article also informs us how intelligence stems from our offspr...
In life, people will always have something to say about you in everything one does in life, either negative or positive, but it’s the moment when you let what is said upon you affect the way you live your life, that when its becomes a problem. I for myself have been victim of so many people saying things about me and letting get into my head, but I had the courage to overcome a lot of obstacles like that. I have struggled with a lot of obstacles in my life some got the better of me while I have been able to overcome most of them. I am writing this essay to give an example of an obstacle which I struggled with for a very long time and I nearly took the best of me, but with time I was able to overcome it.
In this essay I am looking at where Psychology as a discipline has come from and what affects these early ideas have had on psychology today, Psychology as a whole has stemmed from a number of different areas of study from Physics to Biology,
This quote is the summary of how to deal with my problems since I was a young child. Through thick and thin, those words of Emerson, though changed, stayed with me every single day of my life like a friend, a best
quote: "For the secret of man's being is not only to live... but to live for something
Three small words can bring inner happiness to me and others. Having the ability to change your attitude towards life and what defines one will create a feeling of peace. Living your life can bring good and bad regrets, but by the choice we make can bring happiness, and a meaningful life. The goal of this essay is to show what credo I live by and what defines me as a person. Having the power to live with the choices I had made, determination towards a goal, and finding a deeper meaning to life.