Capacities Quotes

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A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. — Andy Hargreaves
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to… — Joseph Butler
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways — Stephen Nachmanovitch
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they… — Eric Hoffer
All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances. — Julia Gillard
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in… — Germaine Greer
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. — Jacob Needleman
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. — Joseph Campbell
The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of… — Stuart Ewen
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to… — Margaret Mead
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our… — Tara Brach
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our… — George Lakoff
Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. — Aristotle
Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people… — Peter Senge
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The… — Swami Vivekananda
Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to… — Eknath Easwaran
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy… — Chiwetel Ejiofor

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