The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before… — Arnold Gesell Copy Share Image
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers,… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
That's the most important thing when you're trying to portray a character for the audience to believe, you have to have the… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I agree some people are biased, and I agree that they exist in a world of pure, sheer, raw hatred for anything… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“men regarded ability in speaking as a peculiar gift, needed only by the lawyer, clergyman, or statesman. Today we have come to… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
When authoritative reports of radical-design craft having spectacular performance are viewed in the light of a stream of astrobiological discoveries, the possibility… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in… — Gary Bartz Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“If only we could catch even the barest glimpse of our true capacity we would be stunned at the potential that lay… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
When I choose a role, what I'm looking for is the ability is to tell our stories. Me being a black woman,… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image