Our Ability Quotes

320 quotes by 273 authors

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. — Stephen Covey
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment â€˜practiceâ€™ or â€˜meditation practice.â€™ — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become… — Tony Robbins
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is… — Eric S. Raymond
NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to… — Jay Rockefeller
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to… — M.F.K. Fisher
Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to… — Caroline Myss
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any… — Robert Fisk
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them — John Ashcroft
Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships. — Simon Sinek
If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall… — Judith Plaskow
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems. — Cory Booker
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all… — Robert Pinsky
The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world. — Phil Bredesen
When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future. — Bill Crawford

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