Best consequence & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”

Thinking Humans Asks Language Ability Consequence Sophisticated Spoken Language

Author:Jane Goodall

“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”

Self Ability Economy Greater Consequence Response Size Inevitable Flexible Disturbance Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic.”

Ifs Giving Should States Ability United Pay United States Economy One Thing Consequence Bills Congress Refuse Compromise Global Economy

Author:Barack Obama

“All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.”

Men Action Causes Ability Effects Events Discovery Consequence Concerned Increase Cause And Effect Scientific Discovery Future Events

Book:The Peter prescription: how to be creative, confident & competent

Source: The Peter prescription: how to be creative, confident & competent

“Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.”

Beautiful Ability Fiction Quality Photography Consequence Compelling Severe Ambiguity Blur Misused

Author:Taryn Simon

“Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.”

Given Ability Risk Willing Offers Behavior Capable Consequence Guarantees Courageous Willingness Risk-taking Adverse

Author:Alfred Adler

“I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties.”

“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.”

Ifs Knows Needs Children Problem Fall Ability Brain Situation Evolution Lovers Drug Consequence Negative Falling In Love Addiction Despite Finding Yourself Persist Negative Consequences

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.”

Looks Political Ability Issues Consequence Climate Species Climate Change Resistance Deforestation Rainforest Antibiotics Political Issues

Author:Moby

“I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow.”

People Children Country Helping Able President Ability Leader Poverty Benefits Consequence Slavery Dollars Investment African American Providing Crow Jim Crow

Author:Barack Obama

“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Done Memories Ability Struggle Imagine Consequence Prose

Author:Shane McCrae

“I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.”

Persons Self Loses Ability Bears Balance Consequence Exalted Brethren

Author:Ellen G. White

“A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.”

Way Life Giving Looks Different Wisdom Might Choices Understanding Ability Perspective Consequence One Way Different Perspective Ability To See Noticer

Book:The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective

Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective

“So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)”

Source: Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

“The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences.”

Men Children Ability Weapons Consequence Ultimate Every Man Bombs Plague Vegas

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.”

Ifs Long Soul Lost Given Ability Greater Eternal Consequence Determine Mortals Realms Free Will Long Ago Here And Now Given Up Embodiment Greater Good

Author:Janet Morris

“Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable.”

“Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.”

“What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.”

Ability Views Moral Consequence Army Prepared Superiors Be Prepared Distinguished Subordinates Moral Courage

Author:Sam Manekshaw

“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”

Men Life Should Heart Reason Wisdom Ability Virtue Consequence

Book:A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

Source: A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790

“Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them through your intuition. You hear them 'so to speak' through your insights, inspirations, and clarity. Non-physical teachers cannot control you. You must always decide for yourself how you will use your energy, what you will create. They will assist you to see your choices and the consequences of each. They will guide you to the full scope and depth of your power. How you use your power is up to you.”

“The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

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