Capacities Quotes

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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or… — Lois Capps
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he… — George Gaylord Simpson
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs… — Hugh Mackay
Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability. — Peter J. Daniels
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than… — Eric Hoffer
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few. — Ken Robinson
Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. — Ken Robinson
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a… — Eric Hoffer
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick,… — Benjamin Franklin
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the… — E. O. Wilson
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. — Abraham Maslow
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all… — Eric Jensen

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