An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as… — Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Copy Share Image
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
