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Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine. -- Idries Shah
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. -- Edward Thorndike
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future. -- Robert Reich
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. -- Thomas Merton
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. -- Walter Scott
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa. -- Corneille Ewango
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. -- Doris Lessing
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. -- John Hagee
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit. -- Gail Sheehy
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human. -- Gerhard Richter
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses. -- Stephen Covey
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. -- Eric Hoffer
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. -- Lois Capps
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. -- Noam Chomsky
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. -- Krista Tippett
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. -- Hugh Mackay
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. -- David A. Bednar
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself. -- Mary Manin Morrissey
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. -- Tara Brach
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime. -- Noam Chomsky
We in Europe have great capacities. -- George Papandreou
Know your capacities and continually improve upon them. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. -- Neville Marriner
My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies -- C. Wright Mills
We are educating people out of their creative capacities. -- Ken Robinson
Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability. -- Peter J. Daniels
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. -- Robert South
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. -- Margaret Mead
We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis. -- Lance Armstrong
Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul. -- Sivananda
Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep -- Francesca Martinez
You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit -- Hugh Nibley
The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement. -- Aristotle
We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future. -- Paul Kagame
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. -- Saul Bellow
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. -- Jean Houston
I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style. -- Susie Orbach
One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end. -- Immanuel Kant
People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much. -- Norman Mailer
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. -- Isaac Hecker
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. -- Geoffrey Miller
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. -- Ambrose Bierce
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. -- Horace
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man's right but we minimize his capacities. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. -- Aldous Huxley
Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand. -- Wayne Dyer
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. -- Andy Hargreaves
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! -- Umberto Eco
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn. -- Philip Kitcher
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history. -- Thomas Keating
Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. -- Peter Singer
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. -- Donald G. Mitchell
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love. -- Margaret Mead
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy. -- Gregory David Roberts
Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer. -- Ken Robinson
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. -- Albert Einstein
Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities. -- Alan Greenspan
No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude. -- Thomas de Quincey
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities. -- Charles Baudelaire
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong. -- Judy Chicago
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances. -- Julia Gillard
It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly. -- Lynn Robinson
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. -- Joseph Campbell
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow
...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. -- Denis Dutton
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities. -- Frans de Waal
We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success. -- Jacob Needleman
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. -- Carl Rogers
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few. -- Ken Robinson
We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems. -- Carl Jung
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. -- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. -- John Hagee
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires. -- Marya Mannes
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. -- Henry David Thoreau
With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities. -- Richard G. Scott
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. -- Ron Suskind
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. -- Margaret Fuller
To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully. -- Jack Kornfield
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership. -- Deng Xiaoping
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. -- Jean Houston
Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations. -- Irving Townsend
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning. -- Eric Jensen
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. -- John Tillotson
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. -- Smiley Blanton
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities. -- Alexander Hamilton
The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem. -- Arthur Zajonc
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. -- Morris Graves
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities. -- Gregory Allen Howard
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us. -- Allen W. Wood
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -- Seymour Papert
Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities. -- Daniel Defoe
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses -- Stephen Covey
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. -- Joseph Butler
There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything. -- Sufjan Stevens
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality. -- Morris Graves
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification that yields substantial phenotypic effects, and much else. -- Noam Chomsky
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery. -- Maria Montessori
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. -- Samuel Richardson
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. -- Albert Pike
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities. -- Ian Bogost

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