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“You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.”

Men Trying Wells Use Enjoy Lines Degrees Excellence Definitions Faculty Scope Affording Definition Of Happiness

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.”

Mean Ends Able Desire Purpose Natural Existence Objects Particular Activity All Things Weight Serving Faculty Inclination Discernment Suitable Compatible Fulfilment

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.”

Play Used Natural Lines Skills Guitar Faculty Construction Solo Exploits Flutes Surrogates

Author:Ian Anderson

“[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.”

“It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.”

Pain Careers Influence Special Hollywood Notes Size Following Accidents Traditional Journalism Faculty Pot Butchers Characterization Seminars Traditional Family

Author:Tony Snow

“The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.”

Years Today Europe Unions Plant Faculty Soviet Soviet Union Eastern Marxism Harvard Marxist Eastern Europe Bayonets

Author:George Will

“The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.”

Mind Heart Prayer Secret Praying Faculty Heart And Mind Secret Places

Author:Samuel Chadwick

“If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.”

Ifs Might Standards Grades Relax Faculty Emphasis Orientation

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.”

Exercise Succeed Thoughtful Faculty Not Alone Systematic Exertion Self Made Self Made Man

Book:Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

Source: Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass

“I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.”

Ifs Giving Heart May Soul Use Body Asks Jesus Christ Lord Members Glory Jesus Christ Praise Breaths Serving Faculty Our Lord Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ

Author:John Eudes

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

Ifs Mind Stills Light Able Turns Heaven Water Powerful Magic Blood Rocks Red Gold Blue Green Heavy Invention Grass Faculty Yellow Grey Adjectives Heavy Things

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.”

Years Humans Matter Dream Earth Spirit Belief Heaven Human Beings Five Devil Angel Years Ago Senses Reasoning Faculty Five Senses Angel And Devil

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.”

World Heart Soul Water Cities Wall Holy Beats Spring Senses Gates Faculty Inward Centre Connecting Frontiers Sanctuary

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.”

Ifs Men Together Desire Passion Interest Memories Vote Excellence Complexes Senses Reasoning Concentration Working Together Faculty Efficiency Casting Inventiveness

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.”

Ifs Use Would Be Social Progress Labor Fruit Enjoyed Faculty Disposition Social Progress

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.”

May Fun Easy Process Natural Deals Demand Pleasant Faculty Mantras

Author:Steven Pinker

“What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.”

May Today Purpose Emotion Intellect Being True Faculty Cognitive Perplexity Mismatch

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.”

Mind Philosophy Light Evidence Faculty Superstitions Hostile Monk Credulity

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)

“The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .”

“There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do that, so we'll have to live with the defects. It's amazing how wrongheaded [the teaching is]. There is fatal disconnectedness. You have these squirrelly people in each department who don't see the big picture.”

People Hard Bigs Teaching University Department Remove Faculty Defects Big Picture American Universities Disconnectedness

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.”

Thinking Knows May Art Sound Views Issues Policy Majors University Faculty Public Policy Liberal Arts

Author:Charlie Munger

“Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.”

Character Order Moral Discipline Training Obedience Faculty Deliberate Mold Cultivation Moral Character

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.”

Needs Running Sports College University Congress Active Faculty Autonomy Empowered Backbone Administrators Ncaa College Sports Bylaws

Author:Sally Jenkins

“America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.”

“Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.”

Ideas Water Silence Solutions Angel Constant Musical Hearing Noise Bridges Faculty Poetic Instruction Receiving Stable Silence Is Exposure Majestic Soda

Author:Russell Sherman

“The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.”

Men Book Values Intimate Faculty Compelling

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.”

Men Mind Humans Energy Prayer Praying Highest Mass Capable Concentration Faculty Human Mind Incapable Worldly

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.”

Feels Darkness Critical Feel Good Faculty Decline Superstitions Slides Crystals Noticing Steep Consulting Horoscopes

Author:Carl Sagan

“Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.”

Soul Habit Solitude Fairs Your Soul Companion Faculty Cherish

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.”

Real Games Loses Memories Loss Levels Exercise Intellectual Built Faculty Exceptional Mazes Something Real

Author:Philip K. Dick

“The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.”

Natural Moral Smell Faculty

Book:Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

“Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!”

Prove Photography Surprise Unexpected Faculty Lenses Surrealism

Author:Salvador Dali

“In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the faculty club. In Russia it suggests the moral force of an art practiced against the greatest personal odds, as a discipline, solitary and intense.”

Art Ideas America Force Moral Poet Discipline Clubs Russia Intense Ties Faculty Lunch Solitary Odds

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.”

World Firsts Looks Children First Time Photographer Preserves Faculty Receptive

Author:Bill Brandt

“Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.”

World Giving Facts Use Modern Approach Definitions Artistic Faculty Documentaries Modern World Walt

Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

“My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in my experience, is generally deficient compared to the mad swirling possibilities that our dear common world kicks up at us on a regular basis.”

World Matter Imagination Common Possibility Argument Bases Mad Photographer Dear Kicks Faculty

Author:Tod Papageorge

“In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.”

Men Needs Should Seems Senses Awake Faculty Assistance Search For Truth

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.”

Needs Hands Understanding Imagination Conscious Missions Unconscious Faculty Organs Sensibility Luminous Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Edward Hirsch

“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”

Artist Answers Serious Members Scientist University Pursue Alternatives Complexity Faculty Scholar Engineers Physicians Vocation Ambiguity Psychologist Right Answers Faculty Members

Author:Leon Botstein

“The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.”

Source: The Descent of Man

“There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.”

Men Self Helping Circumstances Self Improvement Improvement Characteristics Faculty Disputes

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.”

Book Lost Generations Perception Tradition Direct Permanent Dependent Faculty Receiving Flavor Mystic Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“Vulnerability is not a weakness but a faculty for understanding.”

Understanding Weakness Vulnerability Faculty

Author:David Whyte

“Someday, I'm gonna write a poem in a letter; Someday, I'm gonna get that faculty together.”

Writing Together Letters Someday Faculty

Author:David Bowie

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”

Humans Facts Earth Hours Mankind Human Nature Cold Criticism Dues Alcohol Beer Dry Faculty Mystical Sober Crushed Drinking Cheers

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“... certain people, such as shamans, witch doctors, practitioners of Eastern religions, New Age gurus or professors of the occult on university faculties are examples of the kind of people who may have much more extensive knowledge of the spirit world than most Christians have.”

Source: Spiritual Warfare Strategy: Confronting Spiritual Powers

“There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the proper position or steps are cut in the rock, made in the right place, and furnished with railings against the danger of falling over. If we examine ourselves, we see that our faculties grow in such a manner that what goes before paves the way for what comes after.”

Ifs Men World Way Made Fall Grows Steps Cutting Feet Rocks Danger Position Height Faculty Towers Ladders Right Place

Author:John Amos Comenius

“Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation. This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat: these two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other.”

Source: The Law

“You have been gifted with mental faculties to improve any circumstance around you.”

Has Beens Circumstances Faculty Gifted

Author:Bob Proctor

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