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“We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.”

People Way Needs Giving Art Action Individual Belief Views Study Influence Development Capacity Ideology Sufism Right Way Sufi Beneficial Mold Individuals And Society

Author:Idries Shah

“The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.”

Men Mean Ends Order Causes Development Capacity Employed Antagonism

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”

Men Humans May Self Human Beings Alive Development Men And Women Capacity Destruction Infinite Appearance Despite Self Development Self Destruction

Author:Idries Shah

“To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.”

Men Humans Use Work Duty Development Men And Women Capacity Faculty Human Development

Book:Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

Source: Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist

“the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.”

Artist Courses Work Creativity Development Capacity

Book:Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist

Source: Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist

“What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.”

Men Firsts Humans Language Born Animal Development Capacity Mere Symbols Humankind Signals Distinguished Symbolic Inseparable Human Capacity

Book:About Looking

Source: About Looking

“We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.”

Humans Human Beings Students Development Musician Capacity Concerned Scientist Just One Mathematician

Book:Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.”

Humans Happens Life Is Easy Animal Too Much Development Eating Survival Capacity Incredibles Complicated Human Life Comparison Gifted Replication Nothing Is Easy

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.”

People Needs Problem Action Support Environment Planets Development Becoming Capacity Destruction Transformation Urgent Degradation Modification Biosphere

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.”

Littles Development Capacity Essence Musical Extremes Pops Impulse Shock Suicidal Wretched Immaturity Pseudo Stardom Short Lived Notoriety

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.”

Mind Shows Spirituality Mankind Possibility Development Capacity Inevitability

Book:The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga

“I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has given me the opportunity to insist that strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.”

“I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.”

Thinking Knows Needs Bigs Courses Growth Economy Development Skills Capacity South Boards South Africa Constraints Private Sector Shortage

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.”

People Needs Care Quality Policy Development Research Capacity Program Strategy Available Range Addresses Technological Good Quality

Author:Ruth Simmons

“The success of any development project is based on encouraging people to shoulder their own responsibilities and become aware of their own capacities, their rights too, rather than providing them with ready-made solutions.”

People Made Responsibility Rights Ready Development Projects Solutions Capacity Shoulders Providing

Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

“Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”

Men Hands Freedom Psychology Development Self Improvement Capacity Personal Growth Self Discovery Mold

Book:Man's Search for Himself

Source: Man's Search for Himself