Best ability & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.”

Knows Mean Light Order Individual Ability Consciousness Claims Really Mean Succession Transmit Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.”

Order Christ Ability Views Greater Standing Shoulders Valleys Descendants

Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.”

“A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.”

Two Order Culture Energy Ability Quality Promise Mere Brilliant Mortals Mere Mortals

Author:Margaret Mead

“The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.”

May Reason Reality Truth Running Lying Order Reading Ability Fiction Honesty Truth Is Anger Stranger Rational Thread Irrational Believable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Clearing the ground

Source: Clearing the ground

“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”

Knows Mind Stills Reason Done Shows Certain Order Ability Consciousness Satisfied Curse

Book:Essays and Reviews

Source: Essays and Reviews

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.”

“I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.”

Thinking Has Beens Stories Able Order Ability Skills Happenings Scientist Excited

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”

Use Christian Order Courses Ability Compassion Meditation Buddhism Method Forgiving Technique Devotion Buddhist Monk Nun

Author:Dalai Lama

“I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.”

Firsts Believe Stories Order Ability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.”

Wells Important Reason Government Order Ability Deals Achieve Conditions Balance Tasks Favors Well Being Civilized Civilized Society Wartime

Author:William Rehnquist

“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”

Order Ability Creativity Chaos Disorder Introducing Randomness

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.”

Knows Writing Made Dream School Film Order Language Goal Ability Effort Practice Rich Masters Paris Filmmaker Bad Things Journal Film School

Author:Abdellah Taia

“The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.”

War Order Ability Information Terrorist Factors Civilians Captured Atrocities Sponsors Premium

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.”

People Knows Order Loses Ability Decision Emotion Cutting Emotional Discipline Exercise Weight Majority Investment Fats Despite Analogies Dieting Lose Weight Unsuccessful

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.”

Humans Order Left Process Ability Brain Information Patterns Visuals Human Brain Symmetry Left And Right

Author:Tony Buzan

“I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?”

Order Goal Growth Ability Growing Failing Achieve Achieving Your Goals

Author:James C. Collins

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