“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.” YearsHumansLongEndsCareResultsBrainEnvironmentWrittenInfluenceDevelopmentIntellectualProgramPerfectionComplexesTake CarePsychologicalImperfectionEnginesNot PerfectHuman BrainEnd ResultsIntellectual DevelopmentHuman Imperfection Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.” ThinkingChildrenStoriesInfluenceStyleDevelopmentMythologyInevitableFairytaleFolkloreSmall Child Author:Juliet Marillier
“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.” PeopleWayNeedsGivingArtActionIndividualBeliefViewsStudyInfluenceDevelopmentCapacityIdeologySufismRight WaySufiBeneficialMoldIndividuals And Society Author:Idries Shah
“Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.” ArtistPathInfluenceDevelopmentBeing TrueImitationEmulation Author:Ken Danby
“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.” NaturalPowerfulRacePathInfluenceDevelopmentMassIntellectualPhysicsMathematicalErasContributionMost PowerfulChemistrySpheresCelestialNatural ScienceNew EraIntellectual Development Author:Alexander von Humboldt
“Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.” StudyInfluenceSubjectsDevelopmentSympathetic Author:James G. Frazer
“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.” PeopleIfsGivingMayLongDoePhilosophyActionPoliticalOpinionPrinciplesDoubtInfluenceDevelopmentConcernedTasksConservativePhilosopherPracticalsRangeConsistentlyOrganizeMaximsPublic OpinionConservatismPolitical PhilosophyOften IsGuiding PrinciplesConservative Political Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.” ThinkingUnderstandingTeachInfluenceDevelopmentDisciplineBandElementsArmy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.” GivingMindReasonBodyActionFormOpportunityIndividualForceResponsibilityInfluenceDevelopmentHigherSolitudeFacultyCustomsStrongestSuperstitionsWomens RightsDependenceBondageMind And BodyPersonal ResponsibilityFreedom Of ThoughtEmancipationHigher EducationThoughts And ActionsIndividual Life Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wandas international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.” ImportantStepsInfluenceDevelopmentInternationalSteps Forward Author:Wang Jianlin
“Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.” IdeasRealResultsInfluenceStyleProductsDevelopmentDiversityCultural DiversityInterchange Author:Tyler Cowen
“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.” StatesFactsAblePoliticalForceNationsSocialUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesStruggleRightsInfluenceMovementDevelopmentExerciseIndependentDemocraticSocialismDespiteRevolutionaryContributionTerrificBannerConstituentsProletariatPolitical LifeDemocratic Rights Author:C. L. R. James
“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.” WorldAbilityEnvironmentInfluenceDevelopmentAppropriateSuitable Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.” Has BeensCountryHomeActionAmericaForceSocialSecretInfluenceLandStrangeDevelopmentWeaknessCrossesEnglandJewIntellectFactorsEducatedMatureExilePatheticNationalityRealisedSocial DevelopmentCaptivityCelticIndomitable Author:Oscar Wilde
“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.” ThinkingYearsHumansMeanPastMotherViewsInfluenceTaughtSonDevelopmentInvolvedTwentiesMotherhoodMy SonPassagesRootedOver The PastHuman DevelopmentBeing A MotherPedestriansWhat It Means To Be HumanMost Inspiring Author:Mary Blakely
“I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.” ArtistBlackWonderInfluenceDevelopmentRaysSongwritersUrbanKeithMayerSoulfulness Author:Hunter Hayes
“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.” FirstsKindWholeFactsChristianAmericaSupportFailingInfluenceMovementRevolutionDevelopmentMassRevolutionaryAccomplishedLatinLatin AmericaNicaragua Author:Ernesto Cardenal
“The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.” PeopleStatesFactsTodayUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceEconomicDevelopmentCitizensCivicsResidentsLending Author:Frank B. Kellogg
“One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.” WorldStatesNationsPresidentUnitedResultsLeaderUnited StatesInfluenceMilitaryDevelopmentWorkersAffairGreat ThingsChiefsBranchesExecutivesOfficersInteractionArrangementsCommandersDiplomatsCommander In ChiefExecutive BranchWorld AffairsIntelligence Officers Author:Barack Obama
“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.” ThinkingShouldLongUseGoalTermNaturalCompanyHeardInfluenceDevelopmentAccountsIncludingLong TermAccountingIntegratingSustainable DevelopmentAccountants Author:Kofi Annan
“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.” IfsLooksMadeRealCharacterStoriesHomeUsedMotherReligiousGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceBrotherDevelopmentPromiseDramaLove StoryPlotComing HomeRomantic LoveTwistsPacingReal CharacterWarner Brothers Author:Robert Cormier
“Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to changes and development in the accents of my thought, my basic impulse, precisely during the Council, was always to free up the authentic kernel of the faith from encrustations and to give this kernel strength and dynamism. This impulse is the constant of my life ... what's important to me is that I have never deviated from this constant, which from my childhood has molded my life, and that I have remained true to it as the basic direction of my life.” GivingImportantDifferentFoundInfluenceChildhoodDevelopmentPeriodsConstantImpulseAccentsMy ThoughtsCouncilWhat's ImportantConstellationsKernelDynamism Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.” MenWayForcePowerfulInfluenceDevelopmentSolidarityFuture Development Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition