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“I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.”

Moral Depends Skills Models Possession Painter

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”

Ideas Use Used Purpose Values Evil Language Emotion Moral Virtue Ignorance Skills Tools Variety Manners Code Carrie Moral Values

Book:Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson

“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”

People Want Can Do Moral Fire Skills Percent Practise Trainees

Author:Atul Gawande

“This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that in the management ofexternal things we excel all other ages; while in whatever respects the pure moral nature, in true dignity of soul and character, we are perhaps inferior to most civilised ages.”

Soul Character Age Moral Pure Skills Dignity Management Characteristics Mechanism Inferiors Nineteenth Century Civilised

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

“If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.”

Ifs Giving Believe Mean Children Character Past Purpose Parent Effort Moral Particular Skills Our Children Practicals Enthusiasm Our Future Our Past Inventiveness American Character

Author:Margaret Mead

“It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a way that the stratagems and ruses may be used in achieving either rational or moral virtues, or in achieving skill in a practical art, or in working evil and wickedness.”

Way May Art Used Evil Moral Virtue Achieve Skills Practicals Rational Application Wickedness Hebrew Aptitude Stratagem Moral Virtues

Book:A Maimonides Reader

Source: A Maimonides Reader

“My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.”

Ifs Made Young Mother Spirituality Names Powerful Moral Principles Roles Practice Taught Involved Skills Structure Medicine Grandmother Very Powerful Young Ladies

Author:Erykah Badu

“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.”

People Ifs Happens Moving Moral Imagine Car Circumstances Morality Skills Creatures Assuming Intention Determine Outcomes Drivers Imagine That Incline

Author:Philip Zimbardo