Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I believe the ultimate path to enlightment is the cultivation of gratitude. When you're grateful, fear disappears. When you're grateful lack disapears.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines… — Elias Hasket Derby Copy Share Image
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to… — Frederich Leopold Von Hardenberg Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
