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“I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.”

Believe Age Language I Believe Ability Development Ability To See Categorization Conceptualization

Author:Chris Ware

“When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.”

Way Believe Ideas Hard Jobs Ability Study Design Hard Work Development Projects Surface Do The Best Have Confidence New Projects Ideas And Dreams

Author:Walt Disney

“I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.”

Ability Acting Stage Development Vulnerable Vulnerability

Author:Ben Heppner

“The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].”

Humans Ability Stage Development Strive Possession Human Development

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.”

Want Book Ability Failing Development Productions Absence Thorough

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”

World Ability Environment Influence Development Appropriate Suitable

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.”

Way Needs Use Women Ability Power Support Development Limits Feminist Developing Limitation Appropriate Improving Diminish Effectiveness Advancing Dealings

Author:Jean Baker Miller

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

“Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.”

Done Ability Christianity Development

Author:George Coyne

“I do think it's important to be smiling and not make it all about business. You'll look back and regret it later, if you don't take advantage of your youth and your ability to travel. And it gives you something to pull from and inspiration to play your characters, and for your life and your development as a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Humans Looks Important Play Character Inspiration Human Beings Ability Youth Regret Development Advantage

Author:Nina Dobrev

“We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation of its nationality, but by the development of its spiritual and ideal abilities leads it to the highest freedom.”

States Spiritual Ability Development Highest Ideals Organisms Preservation Nationality Living Organisms

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.”

People Thinking World Mean Real Ability Situation Development Skills Real World Dealing With People

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age