“Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.” TryingWellsTakenFailingEvidenceFemaleMalesCharacteristicsSexismNormMasculineCompetenceAppearingExpressive Book:Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership
“The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.” MenSpiritualThreePrayerHe ManEvidenceSavingCharacteristicsEfficacySupernatural Powers Book:God's Workmanship Source: God's Workmanship
“Darwin repeatedly used the hypothesis of common ancestry as a platform on which to build his various ideas about testing hypotheses concerning natural selection. He also argued that adaptive similarities provide little or no evidence for common ancestry. Although this second claim needs to be fine-tuned, Darwin was right that ample evidence for common ancestry can exist even if none of the characteristics we observe were caused to evolve by natural selection.” IfsNeedsLittlesIdeasUsedNaturalCommonFineEvidenceClaimsVariousEvolveCharacteristicsPlatformsHypothesisSelectionTestingSimilarityNatural SelectionAncestryAdaptive Author:Elliott Sober
“I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.” KnowsBelieveHumansLongImportantFacesFormChoicesBeliefImagineEvidenceBraveryStrongerImportant ThingsShiningSakeContraryCuresThis LifeCharacteristicsBelieve In YourselfMortalityArticlesRemedyCatastropheHopelessnessValiant Author:Lance Armstrong
“"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."” InspirationalFeelsBelieveHumansI BelieveKindnessEvidenceFavorsCharacteristicsSavagesOverwhelmedUnworthyInhumanInspirational KindnessIndebtedness Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.” MenHumansFactsFormDesireBeliefWishReligiousNumbersConsciousnessHealthyAuthorityNormalEvidenceMen And WomenTraditionBasesHistoricalCharacteristicsMysticismStrongestEarnestHuman ExperienceCravingInner LifeReligious BeliefValidityImmediacy Author:William Ralph Inge
“My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.” WorldFeelsWellsImportantSelfPurposeExistenceOffersResearchEvidenceWell BeingCharacteristicsOur WorldFeel BetterImpressive Author:Gail Sheehy
“There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.” MenWellsMaySaidLightEyeBlackMistakeDarknessGreaterImagineFailingEvidenceConstantErrorsKingdomsCertaintyLandscapeCharacteristicsDelusionCompanionDescribing Author:Louis Aragon
“Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not of human design, and whose behavior is suggestive of intelligent control.” HumansStrongDesignObjectsBehaviorEvidenceIntelligentCharacteristicsPhenomenonUfo Author:Peter Davenport