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“I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.”

Thinking Way Mean Term Ability Civilization Capacity My Way Bridges Way Of Thinking Advanced Civilization

Author:George Carlin

“The ability to get to a higher level in our life means that we have to generate the energy to be able to do so, and generally, we do that by a fall. Spiritual advances are almost always proceeded by a fall of one kind or another.”

Kind Mean Able Spiritual Fall Energy Ability Levels Our Lives Higher Higher Level Life Means

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.”

Mean Ability Brother India Regard

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.”

People Feels Humans Heart Mean Feelings Form Courses Ability Compassion Kindness Emotional Empathy Fellows Related Faculty Goodwill Open Heart Lama Dalai

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.”

Knows Mean Children Stories Seems Justice Ability Laughing Underestimate

Author:Philip Pullman

“If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens I Can Can Do Ability Achieve Raises I Can Do It

Author:Rob Lowe

“A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.”

Trying Mean Bigs Ability Risk Ego Prepared Bad Things Big Ego

Author:Brian Eno

“I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.”

“If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.”

People Ifs Want Mean I Can Ability Gender Pursue Truthful Gender Equality Being Truthful Racial Equality

Author:Anita Hill

“Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.”

Ifs Mean Facts Desire Ability Produce Access Unlimited Matched

Author:Norman Cousins

“When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.”

Writing Wells Mean Ability Struggle Granted Good Writers

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“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

“Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.”

“I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.”

Needs Mean Stories Ability Drama Storytelling Twists Trajectory

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.”

People Thinking Believe Mean Real Ability Imagine Real Life Video Awful

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming.”

Ifs Mean Two Hard Games Hours Ability Speed Access Data Copies Rays Idle Streaming High Speed Discs If Then Idle Time

Author:Mark Cerny

“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.”

“Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And really be an actress rather than just a mannequin. So that involves a tremendous amount of confidence and your ability to expose yourself to anything that will make a better photograph.”

Mean Play Natural Ability Roles Talent Amount Photographer Photograph Actresses Evolve Stylist Natural Talent

Author:Michael Flutie