Highly Quotes

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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for… — Stephen Covey
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to… — Joseph Sobran
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa… — Bertrand Russell
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of… — Lord Kelvin
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as… — Wilhelm Wundt
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the… — Eckhart Tolle
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the… — Michio Kaku
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving… — Charles Koch
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing… — Rowan Atkinson
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And… — Dalai Lama
The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and the related question… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because… — Unknown Author
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my… — Jackie DeShannon
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop… — Keith Johnstone
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth… — Alice Miller
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to… — Peter Singer

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