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“People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life. It is not the head alone, but the whole human being that is a logician. Activities demanding manual and bodily skill, such as knitting, leads to the enhancement of the faculty of judgment. This faculty is actually developed least of all by exercises in logic.”

People Humans Kind Whole Use Hands Human Beings Exercise Activity Skills Judgment Logic All Kinds Behave Faculty Thinker Manuals Knitting Enhancement

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.”

People Humans Self Moments Use Human Beings Skills Losing Difficulty Wake Up Deny Awakening Usual Coping Medication Wake Up Call Self Medicating

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.”

Way Years Humans Heart Two Light Imagination Human Beings Views Four Tree Skills Normal Survival Beats Seasons Possession Desert Faster Rely Sand Pace Palms Gleam Heart Beat Palm Trees

Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh

Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh

“Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.”

Ifs Humans Persons Enough Able Energy Human Beings Attention Focus Skills Stress Patterns Medical Dominant Intuitive Contributing

Author:Caroline Myss

“My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.”

Mind Humans Heart I Can Suffering Human Beings My Heart Quiet Skills

Author:Ram Dass

“Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.”

Years Humans Past Human Beings Ability Technology Couple Skills Tools Digital Display Skills And Abilities Digital Tools

Author:Andrew McAfee

“A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute”

Humans Human Beings Cutting Skills Holes Agony Sufi Parting Reeds Craftsman Flutes Wailing

Author:Rumi

“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”

Men Humans Human Beings Skills Machines Function Samurai Cogs Technical Skills

Book:Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan

Source: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan

“Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.”

People Ifs Humans Human Beings Special Skills Normal Tricks Subtle Learners

Book:The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

Source: The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2

“In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills that will help them be of service to their fellow human beings. Education should encourage people to develop their curiosity about life; above all, it should not trivialize either the students or their lives.”

“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.”

People Humans Done Problem Certain Passion Work Human Beings Special Skills Like Me Arrogant Modest Best Work

Author:Stephen Jay Gould