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“I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.”

People Causes Seeing Capable Lighting

Author:Tony Robbins

“The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.”

Artist Roles Teacher Seeing Teaching Capable Enlightenment Explorers Conveying

Author:Ken Danby

“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”

Body Artist Opportunity Seeing Capable Models Mature

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.”

“When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.”

Feels Seeing Capable Tension Joyful Euphoric

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.”

World Needs Children Ends Done Lines Seeing Creating Capable Providing Stewardship Poorest

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.”

Trying Done Challenges Cases Seeing Risk Protect Capable Entrepreneur Adventurer

Author:Richard Branson

“They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.”

Said Film Roles Seeing Directors Capable Models Direct Inspired Motivated Role Models Happy Friday Frida

Author:Salma Hayek

“I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level.”

Thinking Important Eye Running Levels Seeing Design Produce Evolution Capable Illusion Claims Wings Legs Driving Flying Adaptation

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.”

“Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.”

Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)

“People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.”

People Effort Seeing Capable Deceit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.”

Thinking Seeing Capable Aim Blind Track Following Pursuit Alleys

Author:Erich Fromm

“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”

Inspirational Mind Desire Asks Change Knowledge Seeing Capable Gains Hunger Educational

Author:Maria Mitchell

“I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'”

Men Enough Seeing Capable Delight Convinced Cruelty Chains You Choose

Author:Alice Walker

“Seeing a patter doesn't mean you know how to put it all together. Take baby steps: don't focus on the folks whose skills are far beyond your own. When you're new to something-or you haven't tried it in a while-it can feel impossibly hard to get it right. Every misstep feels like a reason to quit. You envy everyone else who seems to know what they're doing. What keeps you going? The belief that one day you'll also be like that: Elegant. Capable. Confident. Experienced. And you can be. All you need now is enthusiasm. A little bravery. And-always-a sense of humor.”

Knows Needs Feels Mean Littles Hard Reason Seems Together Belief Steps Know How Focus Seeing Havens Baby One Day Skills Capable Bravery Folks Envy Quitting Enthusiasm Sense Of Humor Elegant Baby Steps

Book:Knit Two

Source: Knit Two

“Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold.”

“The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.”

“I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.”

Want Important Shows Able Faces Given Existence Roles Seeing Shapes Fame Capable Glory Important Things Unseen

Author:Paulo Coelho

“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.”

Heart Might Happens Seeing Happened My Heart Capable Finding Love Beauty Of Life Bruised Love Again Zahir

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.”

Moments Attitude Seeing Self Esteem Capable Invisible Esteem Visible Rare Moments

Book:The desert year

Source: The desert year