Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out… — Joe Flacco Copy Share Image
One thing I really like about philosophy is that it's possible actually to do work in a wide range of different areas.… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Writing is something warm and dependable to snuggle up to when everything else is in flux. It's a little secret that you… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for… — Rorion Gracie Copy Share Image
So I don't think one type of wrestling is right and one type of wrestling is wrong, and I've used that ability… — Matt Sydal Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear,… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
It costs lots of money to make records. It costs lots of money to generate artwork and manufacture and then ship things… — Matt Snell Copy Share Image
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, to hear you talk, most men should come with warning labels. (She lifted her hands up to frame her next… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The… — Dwight V. Swain Copy Share Image
Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
The ability to perform basic math calculations is certainly an integral part of playing fundamental poker. But in tournament poker, it's equally… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors… — Lewis Howard Latimer Copy Share Image
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I've worked with incredible producers who have also taken my voice and brought it to another level. I think I have some… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
We've been trying to sell cyclists of all ages and abilities on very detailed and demanding education and training programs designed to… — Bill Wilkinson Copy Share Image
