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“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

Years Ends Suffering Language Loses Ability Teach Students Capacity Thirds Medicine Patient Medical

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other hardworking system, it needs periodic rest and support to continue functioning optimally. This program will teach you how to rest and restore your body's natural detoxification abilities.”

Needs Body Natural Ability Teach Support Products Waste Program Environmental Your Body Eliminating Hardworking Metabolism Toxins

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“Begin your bodybuilding lifestyle with an open mind, an open heart, a lot of patience and understanding. With the right discipline and right approach, it could be the sport that teaches you the most about yourself. It’s not a team sport. There is nobody else to count on, and you rely heavily on your own will and your ability to gather up the courage to take it on and excel. It’s up to you. Is it in you?”

Mind Heart Sports Understanding Ability Teach Team Discipline Approach Lifestyle Rely About Yourself Up To You Open Mind Bodybuilding Open Heart Sports Team

Book:Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

Source: Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness

“The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.”

Ability Teach Learning Teaching

Book:Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution

“Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.”

People Looks Important Problem School Ability Half Teach Study Teacher Subjects Fronts Students Laughed Classmates

Author:Simon Soloveychik

“I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.”

People Thinking Knows Important Young Imagination Ability Teach Creativity Creative Fundamentals Be Creative My Imagination What's Important

Author:Lyle Lovett

“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.”

“We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.”

Use School Form Given Ability Teach Our Lives Creation Higher Capable Faculty Take Control Ability To Choose

Author:Bob Proctor

“We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.”

Giving Facts Might Kids Asks Ability Opinion Teach Dues Cynical Elders Jaded Inexperience

Author:Adora Svitak

“Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.”

Should Humans Running School Ability Teach Learning Human Nature Curriculum

Author:John Dewey

“Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others”

World Giving Helping Certain Ability Views Teach Particular Citizens Achievement Jazz About Yourself Swings World View

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.”

School Ability Teach Resilience Bounce Good School

Author:Kate Reardon

“Every season I teach zombie school. The casting people in Georgia look for like 200 new recruits. They come in in groups of 20, and I audition them and grade them based on their look and their performance ability.”

People Looks School Ability Teach Groups Performances Seasons Grades Auditions Casting Zombie Georgia Recruit

Author:Gregory Nicotero

“Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.”

People Needs Persons Able Together Process Ability Teach Teacher Fields Communicate Coaches Kitchen Restaurants Captains Chef My Thoughts Rugby Great Teacher Great Restaurants

Author:Paul Rankin

“When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.”

People Knows Firsts I Can Jobs Artist Realizing Ability Class Teach Information First Time Photographer Exceptional

Author:John Sexton

“All you can do is learn the skills of movies. Neither colleges nor anyone else can teach you creativity. They can teach you abilities to work with - you know how to use the gifts you've been born with.”

Knows Use Can Do Born Ability Teach Creativity Know How College Skills

Author:Frank Capra