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Hard cases make bad law; Hard work never did anyone any harm; Haste makes waste; He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing; He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; He who hesitates is lost; He who laughs last laughs longest; He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
"Faking it till you make it" is a psychological tool discussed in neuroscientific research. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] A 1988 experiment by Fritz Strack claimed to show that mood can be improved by holding a pen between the user's teeth to force a smile, [ 8 ] but a posterior experiment failed to replicate it, due to which Strack was awarded the Ig ...
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known Hobson's choice is "I'll give you a choice: take it or leave it", wherein "leaving it" is strongly undesirable.
The term was first logged on Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced English language online dictionary, in December 2017 with the definition, "what you would say if something was really good."
Lawson gave the team speech in the summer of 2022, unintentionally coining the phrase “handle hard better.” It wasn’t something she went around saying — it happened organically. “We all ...
IRL, we can often see that saying something doesn't make it so: no matter how much an adult wishes to be six foot five (or five foot six), one is stuck with the height one is at. However, in both IRL and Wikipedia, when conversations or conflicts arise editors may often argue through empty assertions, thus making demands without reasons and ...
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The protest movement has distanced itself from opposition politicians, meaning there is no obvious alternative waiting in the wings. But this could be a strength, Stradner said.