Andrew Bernstein Quotes

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• Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Struggle, Hero, Men

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• A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Needs, Undaunted

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• Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Remember

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• We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Needs, Pushing

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• The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Inspirational, Stress, Kids

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• We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Goal, Upset

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• Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Believe, Negative, Want

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• The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Worry, Balance, Hormones

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• Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, People, Remember

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• Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Country, Religious, Supernatural Beings

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• If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Successful, Succeed

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• Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Art, Philosophy, Independent

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• Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state -
  leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Oppression, Individual, States

  Andrew Bernstein (2005). “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire”, University Press of Amer

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• You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Bored, Arsenic

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• Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Atheism, Fellow Man

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Conflict, Threat

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• ... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Rights, Mind

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• Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Demand, Firsts, Ethics

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• People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, People, Engagement

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• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Negative, Engagement

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• Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Negative, Looks

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• It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress

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