Capacities Quotes

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I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style. — Susie Orbach
Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants… — Richard G. Scott
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social… — Richard Shusterman
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our… — James D. Watson
We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that… — Idries Shah
It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly. — Lynn Robinson
Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the… — Thomas Merton
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. — Horace
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman… — Brigham Young
Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve… — Charles M. Schwab
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different… — Gerhard Richter
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must… — Krista Tippett
Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the… — Ira Progoff
All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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