Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite,… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
My hats off to anybody filming action, because you get beat up. If I'm going to get the crap kicked out of… — John Cena Copy Share Image
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am… — Babatunde Olatunji Copy Share Image
This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive.… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Showrunner I admire: Weiss: "All friendship bias duly acknowledged: Rob McElhenney and the guys at 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' have been… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Artemis must be present at the solstice," Zoe said. "She has been the most vocal on the council, arguing for taking action… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for… — David Korten Copy Share Image
In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image