Capacities Quotes
233 quotes by 197 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.
— Peter J. Daniels
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
— Ken Robinson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Lappé
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
— Abraham Maslow
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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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