“My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.” HumansCultureFatherMy OwnHuman BeingsSonHusbandDegreesMalesNotionSubversiveFather Husband Author:Mark Leyner
“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.” IfsWayTryingHumansArtMatterEarthForceHuman BeingsTruth IsDegreesOceanBiggerBoatRhythmMartial ArtsAcademicNinjaWild Places Author:Rachael Taylor
“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.” IfsKnowsNeedsHumansHardEnoughShowsBodyLossBrokenDegreesStrongerFilledBonesMedicalHolesCracksReplacedHuman BodyHealedHealed You Book:Come Home: A Novel Source: Come Home: A Novel
“If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.” IfsHumansLanguageStudyHuman NatureDegreesRelatedRemarkableBeing Human Author:Charlton Laird
“God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.” MenHumansSometimesReasonDegreesHighestCapableMadnessMadCreditWickedWickednessHuman Reason Book:The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.” HumansPersonsCommunityDealsSecretAcceptingVisionConditionsWillingGeniusHigherDegreesRateAverageCreatorNervesDaringInnovatorsUnexplored Author:Nathaniel Branden
“Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.” HumansMadeDiesForceAttentionSubjectsMankindHonestDegreesPrejudiceInnovationProductionsUnconsciousConsiderationNew ThingsHuman WisdomEarly Death Author:Bill Vaughan
“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.” PeopleThinkingShouldHumansWishAbilityHavensCircumstancesDegreesDignityHopefullySomedayDiscoveringWish You Author:Rachel Corrie
“There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.” HumansSufferingDegreesOrganisationHuman Suffering Author:Susan George
“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.” HumansArtSometimesExpressionSkillsDegreesArt IsUniversalMirrors Author:Sara Genn