Capacities Quotes

233 quotes by 193 authors

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will… — Mark Twain
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and… — Seymour Papert
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their… — Seymour Papert
This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. — Unknown Author
Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think… — Donatella Versace
I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed… — John Shelby Spong
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our… — Benjamin E. Mays
The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to… — Mike Medavoy
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my… — Noam Chomsky
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa. — Corneille Ewango
As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world. — Tom Chatfield
We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does… — Gail Sheehy
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits… — Kevin Kelly
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her… — Ernestine Rose
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us… — Morris Graves
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. — Donald G. Mitchell
The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and… — Vicente Fox

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