The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
As the horrific events of Jan. 6 underscored, DHS must have the operational capacity to appropriately respond to domestic violent extremism. — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or… — Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The capacity for hope is most significant fact of life. It provides human being with sense of destination and energy to get… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations,… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led.… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of strong women, and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
How can you possibly overcome your fears, doubts, worries and other problems? You can't. You simply don't have the capacity. Fortunately, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image