And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Topic

Facing one's fears Personal growth

Author

Elizabeth Appell

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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United States

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Citation

Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Topic
Delay

Author

C. Northcote Parkinson
Source
The Law of Delay
Language
English
Time
1970 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews. John Murray, 1970, ch. 13.

Another quote about Personal growth

Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science

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Topic
Facing one's fears Personal growth

Author

Abraham Maslow
Source
The Psychology of Science
Genre
Scientific literature Psychological literature
Language
English
Time
1966 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row, 1966, ch. 3.

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Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Inevitability of death

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Herman Melville
Source
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Medium
Novel
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.