"Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are……" — Margaret Mead
"Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent."
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Margaret Mead
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162 Quotes by Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead has 162 quotes on this site.
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which…
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and…
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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of…
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In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
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EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept…
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to…
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and…
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
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More Capacities Quotes
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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication…
— Lois Capps
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full…
— Betty Friedan
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching…
— Hugh Mackay
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Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.
— Peter J. Daniels
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As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people -…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary…
— Eric Hoffer
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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not…
— Ken Robinson
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to…
— Ken Robinson
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People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom…
— Eric Hoffer
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